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2
3host command
4============
5
6Synopis
7-------
8
9::
10
11 host bind [-r] <label> [<filename>]
12 host unbind <label|seq>
13 host info [<label|seq>]
14 host dev [<label|seq>]
15
16Description
17-----------
18
19The host command provides a way to attach disk images on the host to U-Boot
20sandbox. This can be useful for testing U-Boot's filesystem implementations.
21
22Common arguments:
23
24<label|seq>
25 This is used to specify a host device. It can either be a label (a string)
26 or the sequence number of the device. An invalid value causes the command
27 to fail.
28
29
30host bind
31~~~~~~~~~
32
33This creates a new host device and binds a file to it.
34
35Arguments:
36
37label
38 Label to use to identify this binding. This can be any string.
39
40filename:
41 Host filename to bind to
42
43Flags:
44
45-r
46 Mark the device as removable
47
48
49host unbind
50~~~~~~~~~~~
51
52This unbinds a host device that was previously bound. The sequence numbers of
53other devices remain unchanged.
54
55
56host info
57~~~~~~~~~
58
59Provides information about a particular host binding, or all of them.
60
61
62host dev
63~~~~~~~~
64
65Allowing selecting a particular device, or (with no arguments) seeing which one
66is selected.
67
68
69Example
70-------
71
72Initially there are no devices::
73
74 => host info
75 dev blocks label path
76
77Bind a device::
78
79 => host bind -r test2 2MB.ext2.img
80 => host bind fat 1MB.fat32.img
81 => host info
82 dev blocks label path
83 0 4096 test2 2MB.ext2.img
84 1 2048 fat 1MB.fat32.img
85
86Select a device by label or sequence number::
87
88 => host dev fat
89 Current host device: 1: fat
90 => host dev 0
91 Current host device: 0: test2
92
93Write a file::
94
95 => ext4write host 0 0 /dump 1e00
96 File System is consistent
97 7680 bytes written in 3 ms (2.4 MiB/s)
98 => ext4ls host 0
99 <DIR> 4096 .
100 <DIR> 4096 ..
101 <DIR> 16384 lost+found
102 4096 testing
103 7680 dump
104
105Unbind a device::
106
107 => host unbind test2
108 => host info
109 dev blocks label path
110 1 2048 fat 1MB.fat32.img
111
112
113Return value
114------------
115
116The return value $? indicates whether the command succeeded.