* VFAT patent EP 0 618 540
@ 2015-10-09 8:36 Gorny Krystian
2015-10-09 18:30 ` Robert Berger
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From: Gorny Krystian @ 2015-10-09 8:36 UTC (permalink / raw
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Hi,
I have a question regarding the VFAT patent (EP 0 618 540) owned by Microsoft. It's about common name space for long and short filenames. I have read that this patent was canceled by Germany / EU, but it's still available in the US right? So is there a patch/option where we can activate to avoid this patent?
Thanks
Krystian
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* Re: VFAT patent EP 0 618 540
2015-10-09 8:36 VFAT patent EP 0 618 540 Gorny Krystian
@ 2015-10-09 18:30 ` Robert Berger
2015-10-09 19:58 ` Christian Ege
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From: Robert Berger @ 2015-10-09 18:30 UTC (permalink / raw
To: yocto
Hi,
On 10/09/2015 11:36 AM, Gorny Krystian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question regarding the VFAT patent (EP 0 618 540) owned by
> Microsoft. It’s about common name space for long and short filenames. I
> have read that this patent was canceled by Germany / EU, but it’s still
> available in the US right? So is there a patch/option where we can
> activate to avoid this patent?
I am not a lawyer, but wouldn't it be easier not to use VFAT?
The only reason I would use it, would be because the bootloader of my
SoC would only be able to boot over FAT/FAT32 from a managed flash. A
patch will not help here as well;)
There are rumors that a fix was implemented a long time ago[1] ;)
>
> Thanks
>
> Krystian
>
Regards,
Robert
[1]
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/07/vfat-linux-patch-could-circumvent-microsofts-patent-claims/
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* Re: VFAT patent EP 0 618 540
2015-10-09 18:30 ` Robert Berger
@ 2015-10-09 19:58 ` Christian Ege
2015-10-09 20:20 ` Ayoub Zaki
2015-10-10 16:50 ` Robert Berger
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From: Christian Ege @ 2015-10-09 19:58 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Robert Berger; +Cc: Yocto list discussion
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Hi,
Am 09.10.2015 8:31 nachm. schrieb "Robert Berger" <
gmane@reliableembeddedsystems.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 10/09/2015 11:36 AM, Gorny Krystian wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a question regarding the VFAT patent (EP 0 618 540) owned by
> > Microsoft. It’s about common name space for long and short filenames. I
> > have read that this patent was canceled by Germany / EU, but it’s still
> > available in the US right? So is there a patch/option where we can
> > activate to avoid this patent?
>
> I am not a lawyer, but wouldn't it be easier not to use VFAT?
> The only reason I would use it, would be because the bootloader of my
> SoC would only be able to boot over FAT/FAT32 from a managed flash. A
> patch will not help here as well;)
A decent U-Boot can load the kernel from ext4. And I do not know any ROM
loader which needs vfat, except maybe this TI SOCs...
Regards,
Christian
>
> There are rumors that a fix was implemented a long time ago[1] ;)
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Krystian
> >
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
>
> [1]
>
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/07/vfat-linux-patch-could-circumvent-microsofts-patent-claims/
>
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* Re: VFAT patent EP 0 618 540
2015-10-09 19:58 ` Christian Ege
@ 2015-10-09 20:20 ` Ayoub Zaki
2015-10-10 16:58 ` Robert Berger
2015-10-10 16:50 ` Robert Berger
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From: Ayoub Zaki @ 2015-10-09 20:20 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Christian Ege; +Cc: Robert Berger, yocto
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TI Socs Boot Rom code can use Vfat but does not necessarly need it as
Bootloaders (spl, u-boot) can be loaded directly from Raw MMC/eMMC.
Am 09.10.2015 21:59 schrieb "Christian Ege" <k4230r6@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> Am 09.10.2015 8:31 nachm. schrieb "Robert Berger" <
> gmane@reliableembeddedsystems.com>:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 10/09/2015 11:36 AM, Gorny Krystian wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a question regarding the VFAT patent (EP 0 618 540) owned by
> > > Microsoft. It’s about common name space for long and short filenames. I
> > > have read that this patent was canceled by Germany / EU, but it’s still
> > > available in the US right? So is there a patch/option where we can
> > > activate to avoid this patent?
> >
> > I am not a lawyer, but wouldn't it be easier not to use VFAT?
> > The only reason I would use it, would be because the bootloader of my
> > SoC would only be able to boot over FAT/FAT32 from a managed flash. A
> > patch will not help here as well;)
> A decent U-Boot can load the kernel from ext4. And I do not know any ROM
> loader which needs vfat, except maybe this TI SOCs...
>
> Regards,
> Christian
> >
> > There are rumors that a fix was implemented a long time ago[1] ;)
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Krystian
> > >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
> > [1]
> >
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/07/vfat-linux-patch-could-circumvent-microsofts-patent-claims/
> >
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* Re: VFAT patent EP 0 618 540
2015-10-09 19:58 ` Christian Ege
2015-10-09 20:20 ` Ayoub Zaki
@ 2015-10-10 16:50 ` Robert Berger
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From: Robert Berger @ 2015-10-10 16:50 UTC (permalink / raw
To: yocto; +Cc: Yocto list discussion
Hi,
On 10/09/2015 10:58 PM, Christian Ege wrote:
> A decent U-Boot can load the kernel from ext4. And I do not know any ROM
> loader which needs vfat, except maybe this TI SOCs...
Yep that's what I mean. The on-chip loader, which loads MLO,...
Anyhow I tried to come up with a scenario where someone might possibly
want to use vfat.
>
> Regards,
> Christian
Regards,
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* Re: VFAT patent EP 0 618 540
2015-10-09 20:20 ` Ayoub Zaki
@ 2015-10-10 16:58 ` Robert Berger
2015-10-11 13:17 ` Chris Simmonds
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From: Robert Berger @ 2015-10-10 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw
To: yocto; +Cc: Robert Berger, public-yocto-EtnWKYl6rD/WsZ/bQMPhNw
Hi
On 10/09/2015 11:20 PM, Ayoub Zaki wrote:
> TI Socs Boot Rom code can use Vfat but does not necessarly need it as
> Bootloaders (spl, u-boot) can be loaded directly from Raw MMC/eMMC.
I just discovered this recently. Something like:
sudo dd if=./u-boot/MLO of=${DISK} count=1 seek=1 bs=128k
sudo dd if=./u-boot/u-boot.img of=${DISK} count=2 seek=1 bs=384k
So even my made up scenario where you would need vfat on the first
partition does not hold anymore.
... but ...
what about the patent and the on-chip ROMs of SoCs from Ti and Freescale
(hmm NXP? or whoever bought them lately). Maybe the SoCs are affected
since they are able to load stuff from vfat, even if we don't need to
use this feature anymore.
Regards,
Robert
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* Re: VFAT patent EP 0 618 540
2015-10-10 16:58 ` Robert Berger
@ 2015-10-11 13:17 ` Chris Simmonds
2015-10-13 13:58 ` Gorny Krystian
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From: Chris Simmonds @ 2015-10-11 13:17 UTC (permalink / raw
To: yocto
Hi
On 10/10/15 17:58, Robert Berger wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 10/09/2015 11:20 PM, Ayoub Zaki wrote:
>> TI Socs Boot Rom code can use Vfat but does not necessarly need it as
>> Bootloaders (spl, u-boot) can be loaded directly from Raw MMC/eMMC.
> I just discovered this recently. Something like:
>
> sudo dd if=./u-boot/MLO of=${DISK} count=1 seek=1 bs=128k
> sudo dd if=./u-boot/u-boot.img of=${DISK} count=2 seek=1 bs=384k
>
> So even my made up scenario where you would need vfat on the first
> partition does not hold anymore.
Usually the need to include vfat support driven by the desire to
read/write removable media such as SD cards and USB mass storage
devices. If you want interoperability with certain legacy operating
systems vfat is the only option.
>
> ... but ...
>
> what about the patent and the on-chip ROMs of SoCs from Ti and Freescale
> (hmm NXP? or whoever bought them lately). Maybe the SoCs are affected
> since they are able to load stuff from vfat, even if we don't need to
> use this feature anymore.
Not a problem for two reasons. First the patent only applies to fat32;
you can do anything you like with fat16. The TI romcode only uses fat16,
I am pretty sure. Second, even with fat32, the patent is only concerned
with updates to the namespace, hence so long as the romcode does not
have the ability to create files it is also OK. Note that you can't get
round the patent just by mounting vfat partitions read-only because the
driver still has the ability to make new files. There was a patch for
the vfat driver which removed the code to create or modify directory
entries, but it seems to have got lost in the mists of time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
> ..."Never express yourself more clearly than you think." - Niels Bohr
>
> My public pgp key is available,at:
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* Re: VFAT patent EP 0 618 540
2015-10-11 13:17 ` Chris Simmonds
@ 2015-10-13 13:58 ` Gorny Krystian
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From: Gorny Krystian @ 2015-10-13 13:58 UTC (permalink / raw
To: chris@2net.co.uk, yocto@yoctoproject.org
Hi,
exactly Chris it's for sharing Data on external media like USB. I found a workaround in the kernel menuconfig it's working fine. The entry for the workaround is in the menu:
> File systems
>> DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
>>> disable VFAT Dual names support (patent workaround)
Thanks.
Krystian
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Subject: Re: [yocto] VFAT patent EP 0 618 540
Hi
On 10/10/15 17:58, Robert Berger wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 10/09/2015 11:20 PM, Ayoub Zaki wrote:
>> TI Socs Boot Rom code can use Vfat but does not necessarly need it as
>> Bootloaders (spl, u-boot) can be loaded directly from Raw MMC/eMMC.
> I just discovered this recently. Something like:
>
> sudo dd if=./u-boot/MLO of=${DISK} count=1 seek=1 bs=128k sudo dd
> if=./u-boot/u-boot.img of=${DISK} count=2 seek=1 bs=384k
>
> So even my made up scenario where you would need vfat on the first
> partition does not hold anymore.
Usually the need to include vfat support driven by the desire to read/write removable media such as SD cards and USB mass storage devices. If you want interoperability with certain legacy operating systems vfat is the only option.
>
> ... but ...
>
> what about the patent and the on-chip ROMs of SoCs from Ti and
> Freescale (hmm NXP? or whoever bought them lately). Maybe the SoCs are
> affected since they are able to load stuff from vfat, even if we don't
> need to use this feature anymore.
Not a problem for two reasons. First the patent only applies to fat32; you can do anything you like with fat16. The TI romcode only uses fat16, I am pretty sure. Second, even with fat32, the patent is only concerned with updates to the namespace, hence so long as the romcode does not have the ability to create files it is also OK. Note that you can't get round the patent just by mounting vfat partitions read-only because the driver still has the ability to make new files. There was a patch for the vfat driver which removed the code to create or modify directory entries, but it seems to have got lost in the mists of time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
> ..."Never express yourself more clearly than you think." - Niels Bohr
>
> My public pgp key is available,at:
> http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x90320BF1
>
>
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