[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/11] sandbox: Add filesystem support

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Mon Mar 4 22:27:17 CET 2013


On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 09:35:42AM -0800, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> > This series adds support for filesystems to sandbox. While we don't yet have
> > access to host machine block devices, we can access files on the host through
> > a new 'host' filesystem type and the new sandbox command 'sb'.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > sb load host 0 1000 foo.bar
> >
> > will load foo.bar from the host into memory at address 1000. The '0'
> > parameter is the device number, currently unused.
> >
> > While doing this work, I noticed that fs.c had code that probably belongs
> > more in the filesystems themselves. So this series moves fat/ext4 code into
> > those files. This removes most of the #ifdefs from this file, as well as
> > the #defines of functions to 'unsupported'. Now there is a list of
> > filesystems that we support, and if we don't find the one we need, we
> > automatically fall back to the 'unsupported' one.
> >
> > Finally, the ext4 write support is moved into a separate file since ext4fs.c
> > was over 3500 lines and the write support seems entirely separate from the
> > main function in that file.
> 
> Are there any comments on this series please? It adds new methods to
> the filesystem interface, and a new 'host' filesystem type for
> sandbox.

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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