support for mounting vfat partitions

[Andy Doan]

The linaro kernel .config has these options as modules:

  CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
  CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m

It would ease testing if these were changed to 'y'. Based on this conversation in linaro-dev:

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Andy Doan <email address hidden> wrote:
> > On 06/07/2011 10:44 AM, John Rigby wrote:
>> >> I intend to make this better this cycle. The various flavours will be more
>> >> consistent with one another and the configs will be much leaner. Also I have
>> >> found that one can successfully boot test a kernel with only "make uImage"
>> >> so you don't have to take the time to build all the module to do a quick boot
>> >> test.
> >
> > Slightly off topic - but there's one annoying thing when you just build
> > our uImage. The linaro default .config has these options as modules:
> >
> > CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
> > CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m
> >
> > This means you can't update the kernel on your target device because you
> > can't mount /dev/mmcblk0p1. When testing kernel changes, I like to run a
> > script on the device that will grab a new uImage, copy it to
> > /dev/mmcblk0p1, and reboot.

[John Rigby (jcrigby)]

since this is a config issue then it applies the the kernel packages