| === ubuntu64bit is now known as happydays | ||
| happydays | i take it that the fat.ko and vfat.ko for my marvell arm processor is the bootloader so what does .ko stand for? | 05:02 |
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| happydays | ok, thanks for the help i found out .ko means kernel object file | 05:07 |
| happydays | so does fat.ko seach the input/output and vfat.ko point to the actual OS | 05:09 |
| happydays | or vice-versa | 05:10 |
| scientes | happydays, fat.ko doesn't have support for long file names | 05:12 |
| scientes | while vfat does | 05:12 |
| scientes | fat is only 7.3 file names | 05:12 |
| happydays | scientes: ok but for an arm processor you wouldn't need much anyway | 05:16 |
| scientes | happydays, it has nothing to do with the processor | 05:16 |
| scientes | like, a mobile phone uses 7.3 safe file names | 05:17 |
| scientes | **digital camera | 05:17 |
| scientes | when it uses the fat filesystem | 05:17 |
| happydays | doesn't it act as a bootloader for the arm? | 05:17 |
| scientes | happydays, that doesn't concern the kernel | 05:18 |
| scientes | thats uboot code, if you are using that sort ofsetup | 05:18 |
| scientes | (my sheevaplug just uses a flat uImage partition, and then ubifs) | 05:18 |
| happydays | oh | 05:18 |
| happydays | forgot | 05:18 |
| scientes | sure you can also access i from linux | 05:18 |
| scientes | but i dont have any comp with that sort of bootloader | 05:19 |
| scientes | fat is a VERY simple filesystem | 05:20 |
| scientes | both with and without long file names | 05:20 |
| happydays | cool ok thanks | 05:21 |
| scientes | and for that reason it appears in alot of embedded devices | 05:22 |
| scientes | ...and bootloaders | 05:22 |
| happydays | i was just running my arm machine got side track on what i was doing and completely forgot about the uboot cause i got into the machine at the password and not the boot lol | 05:30 |
| happydays | BTW sheevaplug's are great inexpensive devices great for learning the in's and out's of embedded systems | 05:39 |
| === eebrah is now known as Guest60510 | ||
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