I think there is some issues in the Apache Foundation email infra, this is the second time it happens. The same email is send again after some days.
On 1/19/22, Arie de Muijnck <mygro...@ademu.com> wrote: > On 2022-01-19 19:40, TimH wrote: >> FAT seems broken for NOR flash devices. Spent days getting nowhere. >> >> Since FAT and flash devices don't really play well together anyway >> (already found s512 erases a flash sector at least 4 times when >> writing a cluster), so I'm wondering, in parallel, if NuttX has other >> tricks up its sleeve that might achieve the same end? I want t: >> >> - write to the flash, for logging, from the app running on the board. >> This can be done with any FS - or raw - as far as I'm concerned. Not >> the issue. >> >> - an external PC (ideally Linux, Windows and MAC) needs to be able >> "see" the data via USB (msd) and read/write to the memory (log data, >> config files, audio files, etc). Hence FAT. >> >> With a flash size of between 32 and 128Mbyte, I don't think a ramdisk >> formatted as FAT holding a copy of the flash data is really the way to >> go (board only has 64Mbyte RAM anyway). >> >> I'm guessing I'll have to keep up the battle - that NuttX is winning - >> of FAT vs. NOR flash until the bitter end, but if anyone does have >> other ideas I'm listening! >> > > Why the fixation for MSD mode and FAT? > Using a serial stream protocol also could access the files in a > transparent matter. > I remember the days of KERMIT, ZMODEM, CP, etc., over a serial link. > Making the device appear as an NDIS network adapter also allows e.g. FTP > to transfer files. > > Arie > >
