vfat support

Camilo Alejandro Arboleda mislistas.correo at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 14:38:14 UTC 2006


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.

> 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
>
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> --
> Schöne Grüße aus Reutlingen
>



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