vfat support

Philippe Simons loki_666 at fastmail.fm
Thu Jul 6 15:08:26 UTC 2006


On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 09:38:14 -0500, "Camilo Alejandro Arboleda"
<mislistas.correo at gmail.com> said:
> 2006/7/6, Wolfram Wadepohl <W.Wadepohl at indumat.de>:
> > Philippe Simons schrieb:
> >
> > > Everything seems to runs fine, but the "standard" filesystem for the SD
> > > drive is a vfat with LFN.
> > > If not, where should a look at to begin this.
> 
> Look at MSDN. There is full documentation about VFAT.
> 
> >
> > VFAT and long filenames are patent protected property from Microsoft Corp.
> > If you want to use it, you need a license from Microsoft.
> >
> 
> Microsoft only charges if you sell a product with embedded storage
> devices using VFAT. You don't need to pay for the device driver
> itself.
> 

ok good. now what rtems part should I implement and what part can I take
from the msdod FS?

> > See US Patent http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=5758352
> > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=5579517
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/fatgen.mspx
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Schöne Grüße aus Reutlingen
> >
> 
> 
> 
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