[PATCH v1] doc: README.distro: Special case with Windows formatted disk

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 22:05:05 CET 2021


On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 9:28 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 08:27:49PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 06:50:39PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:

...

> > The case I got into has been achieved by very standard procedures. Hence it's
> > kinda default behaviour in some cases and should be handled accordingly. The
> > patch proposed here is to cover this in the U-Boot, because real fix has been
> > rejected by maintainer (probably I failed to explain that). But this is still
> > bug in U-Boot for such cases. And again, Linux has an offset option. I'm fine
> > if this can be added to the fat* commands in the U-Boot.
>
> Sorry, what is the real fix that was rejected again?  Thanks!

I probably misspelled the state of the affairs. The direction (*) of
how to fix this had been rejected.

*) the idea is to fix fat support code to consider nested MBRs.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


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