[yocto] VFAT patent EP 0 618 540

[Christian Ege]

Hi,
Am 09.10.2015 8:31 nachm. schrieb "Robert Berger" <
gmane at 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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