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			60 lines
		
	
	
		
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| This patch series adds support for ext4 ls,load and write features in uboot
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| Journaling is supported for write feature.
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| 
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| To enable support for the ext4 (and ext2) filesystem implementation,
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| #define CONFIG_FS_EXT4
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| 
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| If you want write support,
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| #define CONFIG_EXT4_WRITE
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| 
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| To Enable ext2 ls and load commands, modify the board specific config file with
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| #define CONFIG_CMD_EXT2
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| This automatically defines CONFIG_FS_EXT4 for you.
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| 
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| To Enable ext4 ls and load commands, modify the board specific config file with
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| #define CONFIG_CMD_EXT4
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| This automatically defines CONFIG_FS_EXT4 for you.
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| 
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| To enable ext4 write command, modify the board specific config file with
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| #define CONFIG_CMD_EXT4
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| #define CONFIG_CMD_EXT4_WRITE
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| These automatically define CONFIG_FS_EXT4 and CONFIG_EXT4_WRITE for you.
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| 
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| Also relevant are the generic filesystem commands,
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| #define CONFIG_CMD_FS_GENERIC
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| This does not automatically enable EXT4 support for you.
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| 
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| Steps to test:
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| 
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| 1. After applying the patch, ext4 specific commands can be seen
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|    in the boot loader prompt using
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| 	UBOOT #help
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| 
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| 	ext4load- load binary file from a Ext4 file system
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| 	ext4ls  - list files in a directory (default /)
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| 	ext4write- create a file in ext4 formatted partition
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| 
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| 2. To list the files in ext4 formatted partition, execute
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| 	ext4ls <interface> <dev[:part]> [directory]
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| 	For example:
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| 	UBOOT #ext4ls mmc 0:5 /usr/lib
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| 
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| 3. To read and load a file from an ext4 formatted partition to RAM, execute
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| 	ext4load <interface> <dev[:part]> [addr] [filename] [bytes]
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| 	For example:
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| 	UBOOT #ext4load mmc 2:2 0x30007fc0 uImage
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| 
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| 4. To write a file to a ext4 formatted partition.
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| 	a) First load a file to RAM at a particular address for example 0x30007fc0.
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| 	Now execute ext4write command
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| 	ext4write <interface> <dev[:part]> [filename] [Address] [sizebytes]
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| 	For example:
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| 	UBOOT #ext4write mmc 2:2 /boot/uImage 0x30007fc0 6183120
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| 	(here 6183120 is the size of the file to be written)
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| 	Note: Absolute path is required for the file to be written
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| 
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| References :
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| 	-- ext4 implementation in Linux Kernel
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| 	-- Uboot existing ext2 load and ls implementation
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| 	-- Journaling block device JBD2 implementation in linux Kernel
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