On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 9:20 PM Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk@gmx.de wrote:
On 1/16/20 11:39 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
Obviously U-Boot's fat code cannot handle it.
So precisely, U-Boot cannot handle nested partition( table)s?
Seems so. We need to be able to supply the partition number we would like to open, something like cmd <interface> [<dev>[:<partition>[:<nested partition>]]] otherwise it will require some (error prone) heuristics to understand which one user would like to use.
I have formatted a USB stick Windows 10.
That is *not* the case I'm describing.
Maybe I described it wrong. Let me try again.
Prerequisites: - the board with U-Boot and installed Linux OS on eMMC - g_multi module in Linux OS that shares *one of the eMMC partitions* (pay attention here) as a disk to Windows host
Now, when you format that exposed disk (which is actually a partition on eMMC!) in Windows, you will get nested partitioning.
P.S. I can easily reproduce this on real device with latest U-Boot. U-Boot has obvious issue with recognizing such disks.