On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:03 AM, David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 09:08 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>
>> David, I vaguely remember you had some plans/ideas on the fat issue.
>> So, if you have some spare cycles for ovmf atm I'd suggest to look into
>> that before fixing s3 with csm present.
>
> This is annoying. It should be so simple to reimplement a FAT driver
> based on the numerous BSD-licensed implementations (or even GPL) out
> there.
>
> For me to do it myself and attempt to get it past the corporate "open
> source release process", however, would probably be non-trivial.

Wimp :)

(Turnabout ... :)

> I know of two people who are in less onerous positions in that respect,
> and who have convincingly threatened at times to do it. Unfortunately,
> neither of them has followed through so far.
>
> Hm, I wonder if it would have made a good Google Summer of Code
> project... :)

Alin Rus made a good start at ext2 support based on NetBSD's code
during GSoC a few years back:
https://bitbucket.org/alinrus/ext2pkg

It would be interesting to see that through, and perhaps it could be
leveraged for using OpenBSD's other filesystem code.

-Jordan

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