[U-Boot] FAT filesystem support on SPI flash

[Jagan Teki]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Vasili Galka <vasili at visionmap.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On our system, we are interested in keeping all files, including the OS image and U-Boot second stage on FAT filesystem residing on a SPI flash.

I'm not a file-system expert, but I've a basic question like how
does/well a SPI flash(mtd) device have
FAT support on it. Generally flash file-systems were categories to do
the job right?

>
> I have not found existing U-Boot support for such functionality. Have I missed it?
>
> In any case, I'm willing to implement this, do you see it reasonable incorporating such code into U-Boot? (if it passes review of course)
>
> I note about design: As our chip (TI's AM335x) does not support direct boot from FAT stored on SPI, I plan reserving section at the beginning of SPI flash for the first stage boot loader and having the filesystem after it.

thanks!
-- 
Jagan.