Re: [Freedos-devel] OSS ExFAT Implementation

2020-10-15 Thread Eric Auer
> FAT implementions arent "just swappable" - they are more a adapter between > the OS interface (FCBs/DOS 2.0 file descriptors in FreeDOS) and the > blockdev driver. Yes back in the times DOS was not much more than a BIOS which helped apps to work with files, hence the D in DOS. A good idea wou

Re: [Freedos-devel] OSS ExFAT Implementation

2020-10-15 Thread Nero
Hi, im just a user of the freedos project, so i have no authority in this, but: FAT implementions arent "just swappable" - they are more a adapter between the OS interface (FCBs/DOS 2.0 file descriptors in FreeDOS) and the blockdev driver. The petit-fat library can only open one file at the time

[Freedos-devel] OSS ExFAT Implementation

2020-10-14 Thread Louis Santillan
I saw a post on HN the other day that of a light weight OSS FAT12/16/32 implementation intended for Microcontrollers (including 8-bit MCU!) [0][1]. Perusing the author's website, I find that it is a subset of another FAT implementation for MCUs that includes an exFAT [2]. To me it is an interesti