Hi,
Well, there was a patch posted for this some time ago: http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg05444.html But, this patch broke several 512 byte blocksize devices, so I did not push it to mainline. You might take a look at it, maybe it solves your problem. If you can make it work properly with 512 byte devices as well, I am in for a patch...
Do you know if anyone is actively working on this issue?
Not that I am aware of...
I tried applying the patch to the most recent U-Boot but it doesn't apply cleanly. If no one is working on it, I might try to take a look at updating the patch and fixing the issue.
Great!
Is this not a big issue with people using USB flash drives? It seems I'm running into more and more "large block" flash drives.
I heard no complains so far...
Also, while clicking around the Git repo, I noticed that USB Ethernet support for the AT91 micros was added to U-Boot development. How far along is the USB Ethernet support? Is it something that can be tested now?
Well, it should be fully operational, and I need to be push it to mainline. I left it in the u-boot-usb tree for the time being, because the ARM-subsystem (and lib_arm) was changing a lot lately and I was waiting until that was stabilised. Probably something for the next release... Currently the patches are split up in such a way that I can even push it forward without the ARM support.
Kind regards,
Remy