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

Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Fri Jan 29 22:39:01 CET 2021


On 1/29/21 10:05 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 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.
>

Hello Andy,

could you, please, provide an image created by Windows but not
recognized by U-Boot. According to the thread the first 1 MiB should be
enough to reproduce the problem. Maybe place it on gist.github.io.

This should give us the test case for correcting disk/part_dos.c.

Best regards

Heinrich


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