[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] Add a CBFS driver and commands to u-boot

[Gabe Black]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> Dear Gabe Black,
>
> In message <1323214584-11635-1-git-send-email-gabeblack at chromium.org> you
> wrote:
> > Coreboot uses a very simple "file system" called CBFS to keep track of
> and
> > allow access to multiple "files" in a ROM image. This change adds CBFS
> > support and some commands to use it to u-boot. These commands are:
> >
> > cbfsinit - Initialize CBFS support and pull all metadata into RAM. The
> end
> > of the ROM is an optional parameter which defaults to the standard
> > 0xffffffff and can be used to support multiple CBFSes in a system. The
> last
> > one set up with cbfsinit is the one that will be used.
> >
> > cbfsinfo - Print information from the CBFS header.
> >
> > cbfsls - Print out the size, type, and name of all the files in the
> current
> > CBFS. Recognized types are translated into symbolic names.
> >
> > cbfsload - Load a file from CBFS into memory. Like the similar command
> for
> > fat filesystems, you can optionally provide a maximum size.
> >
> > Also, if u-boot needs something out of CBFS very early before the heap is
> > configured, it won't be able to use the normal CBFS support which caches
> > some information in memory it allocates from the heap. This change adds a
> > new cbfs_file_find_uncached function which searchs a CBFS instance
> without
> > touching the heap.
> >
> > Support for CBFS is compiled in when the CONFIG_CMD_CBFS option is
> > specified.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack at chromium.org>
>
> See previous message.
>


Could you be more specific?

Gabe