[U-Boot] [PATCH V3 0/2] *** Add ext4 filesystem support in uboot ***

uma.shankar at samsung.com uma.shankar at samsung.com
Wed Dec 28 03:19:44 CET 2011


From: Uma Shankar <uma.shankar at samsung.com>

***
This patch series adds support for ext4 ls,load and write features in uboot
Journaling is supported for write feature.

To Enable ext4 ls and load commands, modify the board specific config file with
#define CONFIG_CMD_EXT2
#define CONFIG_CMD_EXT4

To enable ext4 write command, modify the board specific config file with
#define CONFIG_CMD_EXT2
#define CONFIG_CMD_EXT4
#define CONFIG_CMD_EXT4_WRITE
Steps to test:

1. After applying the patch, ext4 specific commands can be seen
   in the boot loader prompt using
        UBOOT #help

        ext4load- load binary file from a Ext4 file system
        ext4ls  - list files in a directory (default /)
        ext4write- create a file in ext4 formatted partition

2. To list the files in ext4 formatted partition, execute
        ext4ls <interface> <dev[:part]> [directory]
        For example:
        UBOOT #ext4ls mmc 0:5 /usr/lib

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

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

***

Uma Shankar (2):
  ext4fs ls load support
  ext4fs write support

Changes for v2:
	- Code cleanup, changed comment style
	- camel case removed, resolved code alignment issues
	- memory allocation logic changed, removed busybox logic
	- Modified ext4 load to remove grub dependency (GPLv3)
	- Introduced new Config for ext4 write 

Changes for v1:
	- Removed checkpatch warnings and errors
	- Moved common API's of ext2 and ext4 to one generic header file

 Makefile               |    2 +-
 common/Makefile        |    1 +
 common/cmd_ext2.c      |    1 +
 common/cmd_ext4.c      |  390 ++++++++++
 fs/Makefile            |    1 +
 fs/ext2/dev.c          |    1 +
 fs/ext2/ext2fs.c       |  340 +--------
 fs/ext4/Makefile       |   52 ++
 fs/ext4/README         |   46 ++
 fs/ext4/crc16.c        |   62 ++
 fs/ext4/crc16.h        |   16 +
 fs/ext4/ext4_common.c  | 1945 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/ext4/ext4_common.h  |   68 ++
 fs/ext4/ext4_journal.c |  662 ++++++++++++++++
 fs/ext4/ext4_journal.h |  147 ++++
 fs/ext4/ext4fs.c       | 1191 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/ext2fs.h       |   16 +-
 include/ext4fs.h       |  145 ++++
 include/ext_common.h   |  198 +++++
 19 files changed, 4960 insertions(+), 324 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 common/cmd_ext4.c
 create mode 100644 fs/ext4/Makefile
 create mode 100644 fs/ext4/README
 create mode 100644 fs/ext4/crc16.c
 create mode 100644 fs/ext4/crc16.h
 create mode 100644 fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
 create mode 100644 fs/ext4/ext4_common.h
 create mode 100644 fs/ext4/ext4_journal.c
 create mode 100644 fs/ext4/ext4_journal.h
 create mode 100644 fs/ext4/ext4fs.c
 create mode 100644 include/ext4fs.h
 create mode 100644 include/ext_common.h



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