Booting from ext2 partition
Hi Jerry, Wolfgang,
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Recently a few of the folks on my team have asked me to implement a
loader that can load the kernel from an ext2 partition.
A good starting point would be
http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~gef/fs/lread10.zip
or
http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~gef/fs/ext2tool.zip
Wolfgang, currently I have implementation of booting from Reiserfs for U-Boot 0.3.0. My question is: will you accept the patch for latest version of U-Boot or you are totally against next filesytstem support in U-Boot ?
Pavel
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Dear Pavel,
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Wolfgang, currently I have implementation of booting from Reiserfs for U-Boot 0.3.0. My question is: will you accept the patch for latest version of U-Boot or you are totally against next filesytstem support in U-Boot ?
I will never reject an extension that is useful to some people and does not hurt all the others. If your extension can be turned off (by compile-time configuration options) completely I see no reason not to add it.
My personal opinion is that such features are more or less wasted effort, since the same result is usually easily available without this feature. But if the work has already been done, it would be even worse NOT to make it available to others.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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I will never reject an extension that is useful to some people and does not hurt all the others.
It is nice to hear such message :-)
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If your extension can be turned off (by
compile-time configuration options) completely I see no reason not to add it.
Yes, it can.
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My personal opinion is that such features are more or less wasted effort, since the same result is usually easily available without this feature.
You are right, _usually_ you can live with additional partition for kernel, but there can be a situation when we need boot directly from some filesystem.
Give me some time and I'll port the reiserfs stuff to the latest U-Boot and send it to this list.
Best regards
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[U-Boot-Users] PATCH: Reisefs support
In reply to Wolfgang DenkHi Wolfgang,
Here is the promised patch for Reiserfs support. It is from GRUB and tested with the PPC440 CPU. The command interface is the same as for FAT:
reiserls <interface> <dev[:part]> [directory]
reiserload <interface> <dev[:part]> [addr] [filename] [bytes]
CHANGELOG:
* Patch by Pavel Bartusek 21 Mar 2004
- Add Reiserfs support
best regards
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[U-Boot-Users] PATCH: Reisefs support
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CHANGELOG:
* Patch by Pavel Bartusek 21 Mar 2004
- Add Reiserfs support
Thanks, added.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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