Re: [oi-dev] Porting an exFAT driver

2021-12-15 Thread Jean-Pierre André
John Howard wrote on 12/14/21 7:46 PM: Microsoft's exFAT is not royalty-free.  Distributers of devices pay Microsoft.  Microsoft still owns submarine patents on exFAT.  We old-timers have been down that road before.  It is true Microsoft published the specification in 2019 and SDXC flash

Re: [oi-dev] Porting an exFAT driver

2021-12-14 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hello Pr checker has been updated so this should no longer happen. It's actually odd though that it happened in the first place. It wasn't happening on PR7389 Anyway fixed. Let me know if you get another problem with that machine. -Till On 14.12.21 09:01, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Am

Re: [oi-dev] Porting an exFAT driver

2021-12-14 Thread John Howard
Microsoft's exFAT is not royalty-free. Distributers of devices pay Microsoft. Microsoft still owns submarine patents on exFAT. We old-timers have been down that road before. It is true Microsoft published the specification in 2019 and SDXC flash device organization standardizes on it. It

Re: [oi-dev] Porting an exFAT driver

2021-12-14 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 14.12.21 um 11:58 schrieb Jean-Pierre André: I have been trying to package for OpenIndiana a driver and utilities developed by Andrew Nayenko and licensed as GPL2 for the exFAT file system promoted by Microsoft as a replacement for FAT. The packaging went fine locally (by gmake publish), but

Re: [oi-dev] Porting an exFAT driver

2021-12-14 Thread Jean-Pierre André
On 12/14/21 12:09 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: On 14/12/2021 11:58, Jean-Pierre André wrote: I have been trying to package for OpenIndiana a driver and utilities developed by Andrew Nayenko and licensed as GPL2 for the exFAT file system promoted by Microsoft as a replacement for FAT. The

Re: [oi-dev] Porting an exFAT driver

2021-12-14 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 14/12/2021 11:58, Jean-Pierre André wrote: I have been trying to package for OpenIndiana a driver and utilities developed by Andrew Nayenko and licensed as GPL2 for the exFAT file system promoted by Microsoft as a replacement for FAT. The packaging went fine locally (by gmake publish), but

[oi-dev] Porting an exFAT driver

2021-12-14 Thread Jean-Pierre André
I have been trying to package for OpenIndiana a driver and utilities developed by Andrew Nayenko and licensed as GPL2 for the exFAT file system promoted by Microsoft as a replacement for FAT. The packaging went fine locally (by gmake publish), but the pull request check fails on : aclocal: