Uma Shankar | a74a99a | 2012-05-25 21:22:49 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | This patch series adds support for ext4 ls,load and write features in uboot |
| 2 | Journaling is supported for write feature. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | To Enable ext2 ls and load commands, modify the board specific config file with |
| 5 | #define CONFIG_CMD_EXT2 |
| 6 | |
| 7 | To Enable ext4 ls and load commands, modify the board specific config file with |
| 8 | #define CONFIG_CMD_EXT4 |
| 9 | |
| 10 | To enable ext4 write command, modify the board specific config file with |
| 11 | #define CONFIG_CMD_EXT4 |
| 12 | #define CONFIG_CMD_EXT4_WRITE |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Steps to test: |
| 15 | |
| 16 | 1. After applying the patch, ext4 specific commands can be seen |
| 17 | in the boot loader prompt using |
| 18 | UBOOT #help |
| 19 | |
| 20 | ext4load- load binary file from a Ext4 file system |
| 21 | ext4ls - list files in a directory (default /) |
| 22 | ext4write- create a file in ext4 formatted partition |
| 23 | |
| 24 | 2. To list the files in ext4 formatted partition, execute |
| 25 | ext4ls <interface> <dev[:part]> [directory] |
| 26 | For example: |
| 27 | UBOOT #ext4ls mmc 0:5 /usr/lib |
| 28 | |
| 29 | 3. To read and load a file from an ext4 formatted partition to RAM, execute |
| 30 | ext4load <interface> <dev[:part]> [addr] [filename] [bytes] |
| 31 | For example: |
| 32 | UBOOT #ext4load mmc 2:2 0x30007fc0 uImage |
| 33 | |
| 34 | 4. To write a file to a ext4 formatted partition. |
| 35 | a) First load a file to RAM at a particular address for example 0x30007fc0. |
| 36 | Now execute ext4write command |
| 37 | ext4write <interface> <dev[:part]> [filename] [Address] [sizebytes] |
| 38 | For example: |
| 39 | UBOOT #ext4write mmc 2:2 /boot/uImage 0x30007fc0 6183120 |
| 40 | (here 6183120 is the size of the file to be written) |
| 41 | Note: Absolute path is required for the file to be written |
| 42 | |
| 43 | References : |
| 44 | -- ext4 implementation in Linux Kernel |
| 45 | -- Uboot existing ext2 load and ls implementation |
| 46 | -- Journaling block device JBD2 implementation in linux Kernel |