[syslinux] VFAT
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Thu Jun 5 17:08:28 PDT 2008
Andreas Kotes wrote:
>>
>> You're talking quite a bit of complexity here. Just supporting ASCII
>> would be a *lot* easier. Doing what you propose above requires at least
>> a kilobyte of table space, plus support for loading those. This is less
>> than what is required to load a font, which is 8K, but it's still
>> substantial.
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of choosing at compile time for the
> time being, and supporting just Latin 1 (known as ISO-8859-15, which
> contains ASCII) for now ...
>
Doesn't work too well, though, because shortnames will be in cp437, and
that's the default for the PC coming out of reset. It's a bit of a
messy situation.
Anyhow, I have checked in some experimental code to deal with it, and
started to architecting a matching engine state machine. All I can say
is: VFAT is ug-lee...
-hpa
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