[U-Boot] uboot and ZFS

2012-05-01 Thread Jorgen Lundman
Sorry if I am posting some kind of FAQ here, I recently picked up a Cubox (arm) which uses uboot. Added ZFS to Linux and made it have a ZFS root filesystem. The only drawback is the small boot partition of ext2/fat to read uImage and initrd. So I am curious about adding ZFS support to uboot.

Re: [U-Boot] uboot and ZFS

2012-05-02 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jorgen, In message <4fa0a7f3.8010...@lundman.net> you wrote: > > Sorry if I am posting some kind of FAQ here, Don't worry - AFAICT thisis the first time ZFS came up here. > At first glance, it would suggest that it should be feasible to add ZFS to > uboot. But since I only have 'usage-lev

Re: [U-Boot] uboot and ZFS

2012-05-02 Thread Marek Vasut
Dear Jorgen Lundman, > Sorry if I am posting some kind of FAQ here, > > I recently picked up a Cubox (arm) which uses uboot. Added ZFS to Linux and > made it have a ZFS root filesystem. The only drawback is the small boot > partition of ext2/fat to read uImage and initrd. > > So I am curious abo

Re: [U-Boot] uboot and ZFS

2012-05-02 Thread Jorgen Lundman
At first glance, it would suggest that it should be feasible to add ZFS to uboot. But since I only have 'usage-level knowledge' of both boot systems, I am unaware of any show-stoppers. Oh please study this and submit a patch, I believe at least Pavel (CCed) would be glad to see it in :-) Well

Re: [U-Boot] uboot and ZFS

2012-05-02 Thread Jorgen Lundman
done by Siemens, and practised merging that in, compiling, and flashing the Samsung! My bad, credits where due! -- Jorgen Lundman | Unix Administrator | +81 (0)3 -5456-2687 ext 1017 (work) Shibuya-ku, Tokyo| +81 (0)90-5578-8500 (cell) Japan| +81 (0)3 -3

Re: [U-Boot] uboot and ZFS

2012-05-05 Thread Marek Vasut
Dear Jorgen Lundman, > >> At first glance, it would suggest that it should be feasible to add ZFS > >> to uboot. But since I only have 'usage-level knowledge' of both boot > >> systems, I am unaware of any show-stoppers. > > > > Oh please study this and submit a patch, I believe at least Pavel (C

Re: [U-Boot] uboot and ZFS

2012-05-07 Thread Jorgen Lundman
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 filesyste

Re: [U-Boot] uboot and ZFS

2012-05-07 Thread Matthias Weißer
Am 07.05.2012 09:13, schrieb Jorgen Lundman: 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 a

Re: [U-Boot] uboot and ZFS

2012-05-07 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jorgen, In message <4fa7761d.90...@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

Re: [U-Boot] uboot and ZFS

2012-05-07 Thread Jorgen Lundman
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.

Re: [U-Boot] uboot and ZFS

2012-05-09 Thread Graeme Russ
Hi Jorgen Lundman, On 05/07/2012 11:03 PM, Jorgen Lundman wrote: > >> 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 a