xref: /openbmc/u-boot/doc/README.zfs (revision bcc05c7a)
1 This patch series adds support for ZFS listing and load to u-boot.
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3 To Enable zfs ls and load commands, modify the board specific config file with
4 #define CONFIG_CMD_ZFS
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6 Steps to test:
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8 1. After applying the patch, zfs specific commands can be seen
9    in the boot loader prompt using
10         UBOOT #help
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12         zfsload- load binary file from a ZFS file system
13         zfsls  - list files in a directory (default /)
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15 2. To list the files in zfs pool, device or partition, execute
16         zfsls <interface> <dev[:part]> [POOL/@/dir/file]
17         For example:
18         UBOOT #zfsls mmc 0:5 /rpool/@/usr/bin/
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20 3. To read and load a file from an ZFS formatted partition to RAM, execute
21         zfsload <interface> <dev[:part]> [addr] [filename] [bytes]
22         For example:
23         UBOOT #zfsload mmc 2:2 0x30007fc0 /rpool/@/boot/uImage
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25 References :
26 	-- ZFS GRUB sources from Solaris GRUB-0.97
27 	-- GRUB Bazaar repository
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29 Jorgen Lundman <lundman at lundman.net> 2012.
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