On 10/02/2015 12:06 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
Enhance f_read() to find the maximum contiguous set of clusters to read, and read it all at once (which is fast) rather one by one (which is slow).
Hmm. I had hoped that the author of ff.c would accept this patch upstream, so we could pick up a later upstream version that included this patch. However, it seems the author of ff.c has a policy of not accepting outside contributions:
http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/bd/?show=2472 (That's a link to the author's reply to my patch, on the forum system associated with his/her SW)
I wonder how much of a liability incorporating ff.c into U-Boot will be, if we can't ever get any fixes merged upstream. Perhaps we just fork it, although I had hoped we'd be able to keep picking up new versions.