Re: FATX in 2.6 Kernels?

On Monday 31 January 2005 18:20, L. A. Lee wrote:
> Can someone give me a quick run-down on what's really broken in the 2.6
> Kernels' FATX support?  (Or has it been fixed?  I can't find any message
> verifying its working status in the mailing list archives..)

It has not been fixed.

I had a quick look at it, but being someone who runs my xboxes native, I lack 
both the time and the determination to get it working ;)

I suspect locking is one issue - for preemptibleness etc, this needs a lot 
more care, but even with a non-preemptable 2.6 kernel it still doesn't work, 
so there's more to it.

> I've got the time and determination to get it working, but if you could
> help me narrow down my R&D focus to pinpoint the problem, I'd greatly
> appreciate it.
>
> Otherwise, I was going to reconstruct the FATX support from scratch, based
> on the FAT routines and old docs detailing the differences in the FAT
> tables.  That'd be a more painful route, though... :-(

I started off along this route.  What I tried to do was to integrate the FATX 
code into the fat/vfat driver assembly - half the work of the existing patch 
appears to have been a s/fat/fatx effort - which hardly seems a particularly 
good use of time.  However, the fat driver is a can of worms, in my opinion, 
and I quickly lost sight of the big picture.  Perhaps you'll have more 
luck :)

David

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