[yocto] VFAT patent EP 0 618 540

[Ayoub Zaki]

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 at gmail.com>:

> 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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