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| author | Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net> | 2012-07-19 20:48:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> | 2012-08-09 23:42:20 +0200 |
| commit | 4d3c95f5ea7c737a21cd6b9c59435ee693b3f127 (patch) | |
| tree | d11c09245a46d3b0a55c0937874fb2debcb96490 /doc/README.zfs | |
| parent | 753ac610880e6e563d0384bb114f8b41df89e520 (diff) | |
zfs: Add ZFS filesystem support
U-Boot port is based on sources forked from GRUB-0.97 by Sun in 2004,
which can be found here:
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/grub/grub-0.97/stage2/zfs-include/zfs.h
Released by Sun for GRUB under the license:
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
GRUB official releases include ZFS in version:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.99~rc1.tar.gz
And patched against GRUB Bazaar repository for ashift fixes (4KB HDDs)
more conveniently found at github:
https://github.com/pendor/grub-zfs/commit/e7b6ef3ac3b9685ac4c394c897b1d4221b7381f1
Signed-off-by: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
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diff --git a/doc/README.zfs b/doc/README.zfs new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f5998f2f887 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/README.zfs @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +This patch series adds support for ZFS listing and load to u-boot. + +To Enable zfs ls and load commands, modify the board specific config file with +#define CONFIG_CMD_ZFS + +Steps to test: + +1. After applying the patch, zfs specific commands can be seen + in the boot loader prompt using + UBOOT #help + + zfsload- load binary file from a ZFS file system + zfsls - list files in a directory (default /) + +2. To list the files in zfs pool, device or partition, execute + zfsls <interface> <dev[:part]> [POOL/@/dir/file] + For example: + UBOOT #zfsls mmc 0:5 /rpool/@/usr/bin/ + +3. To read and load a file from an ZFS formatted partition to RAM, execute + zfsload <interface> <dev[:part]> [addr] [filename] [bytes] + For example: + UBOOT #zfsload mmc 2:2 0x30007fc0 /rpool/@/boot/uImage + +References : + -- ZFS GRUB sources from Solaris GRUB-0.97 + -- GRUB Bazaar repository + +Jorgen Lundman <lundman at lundman.net> 2012. |