Re: [ECOS] DOS filing system

["Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe at larwe dot com>]

Hi Wilson (et al .. :)

> > I will be happy to give you (or any other list members) my collated
> > "research materials" on FAT12 and FAT16; it's all you really need to
> > implement the FSs. I'm not sure that I can give you my document on FAT32,
>
>That would be great. Since I'm the lead architect/developer on our eCos
>implementation I'll see what I can do about contributing my FAT16 work back
>to the eCos community. I'm sure a few people might like that. :) I won't be

It would be really great if you could do that. In fact I would love to roll 
our code into the public domain, but honestly I don't feel up to fighting 
the necessary legal tussle to convince our people.

I did briefly consider redeveloping a FAT filesystem at home using drive 
image files and stdio to simulate the underlying block driver, but I 
decided that it is in too much of a gray area ethically. (Besides, who the 
heck has time to work out of hours? I haven't been able to do a personal 
project for years...)

I'll be happy to contribute any help short of actually writing your code, 
too. My FS code is about a year and a half old now, and pretty thoroughly 
debugged.

=== Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (Embedded Engineer)
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Personal: http://www.zws.com/ and http://www.larwe.com/

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