[U-Boot] uboot and ZFS

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Jorgen,

In message <4FA7761D.90704 at lundman.net> you wrote:
> > If you correctly skip the HW init, you can try booting u-boot from u-boot ...
> > (now, WD will hate me for bringing this up :-) ). It's possible, but unsupported
> > operation. You might need to do some research on this matter :-)
> >
> 
> I was thinking more along the lines of;  Since I am testing a filesystem 
> driver, to have a small test binary I can run and just feed a patch to (be 
> it block device, or raw file) to test it can traverse, and read the contents.
> 
> But it would not be so bad to simulate that with some #ifdefs I guess.

Did you miss my message of Wed, 02 May?

See
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/130638/focus=130671

Unfortunately there is no legal (license-conforming) way to include
ZFS code into U-Boot and distribute it.

That means, there is no chance to get this added to mainline.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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