| This patch series adds support for ext4 ls,load and write features in uboot |
| Journaling is supported for write feature. |
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| To enable support for the ext4 (and ext2) filesystem implementation, |
| #define CONFIG_FS_EXT4 |
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| If you want write support, |
| #define CONFIG_EXT4_WRITE |
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| To Enable ext2 ls and load commands, modify the board specific config file with |
| #define CONFIG_CMD_EXT2 |
| This automatically defines CONFIG_FS_EXT4 for you. |
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| To Enable ext4 ls and load commands, modify the board specific config file with |
| #define CONFIG_CMD_EXT4 |
| This automatically defines CONFIG_FS_EXT4 for you. |
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| To enable ext4 write command, modify the board specific config file with |
| #define CONFIG_CMD_EXT4 |
| #define CONFIG_CMD_EXT4_WRITE |
| These automatically define CONFIG_FS_EXT4 and CONFIG_EXT4_WRITE for you. |
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| Also relevant are the generic filesystem commands, |
| #define CONFIG_CMD_FS_GENERIC |
| This does not automatically enable EXT4 support for you. |
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| Steps to test: |
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| 1. After applying the patch, ext4 specific commands can be seen |
| in the boot loader prompt using |
| UBOOT #help |
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| ext4load- load binary file from a Ext4 file system |
| ext4ls - list files in a directory (default /) |
| ext4write- create a file in ext4 formatted partition |
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| 2. To list the files in ext4 formatted partition, execute |
| ext4ls <interface> <dev[:part]> [directory] |
| For example: |
| UBOOT #ext4ls mmc 0:5 /usr/lib |
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| 3. To read and load a file from an ext4 formatted partition to RAM, execute |
| ext4load <interface> <dev[:part]> [addr] [filename] [bytes] |
| For example: |
| UBOOT #ext4load mmc 2:2 0x30007fc0 uImage |
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| 4. To write a file to a ext4 formatted partition. |
| a) First load a file to RAM at a particular address for example 0x30007fc0. |
| Now execute ext4write command |
| ext4write <interface> <dev[:part]> [filename] [Address] [sizebytes] |
| For example: |
| UBOOT #ext4write mmc 2:2 /boot/uImage 0x30007fc0 6183120 |
| (here 6183120 is the size of the file to be written) |
| Note: Absolute path is required for the file to be written |
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| References : |
| -- ext4 implementation in Linux Kernel |
| -- Uboot existing ext2 load and ls implementation |
| -- Journaling block device JBD2 implementation in linux Kernel |