Hello Stacey, Am Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 11:22:14AM +0100 schrieb Stacey Pellegrino: > To all those of concern, > > I am in need of help regarding building u-boot with ZFS support for the > Orange Pi 5 Plus. > > I have tried working out the following... > > https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/22ad69b7987eb4b10221330661db4427e40174fb/doc/README.zfs > > The URL link above specifies using the board specific config file, which > for the Orange Pi 5 Plus is (so I believe) > orangepi-build/userpatches/config-default.conf. > I therefore edited this file in question with CONFIG_CMD_ZFS="yes" and > uncommenting the line install_zfs="yes".
In that regard this README.zfs is somewhat outdated. You should set CMD_ZFS through Kconfig instead. Which means: pick the matching defconfig from configs/ subfolder, then run menuconfig and enable CMD_ZFS, and build that. Not sure if that Orange Pi 5 Plus is already supported by U-Boot mainline already. From a quick glance at the defconfig filenames I would not know which to pick. > However, it still does not allow me to boot with root ZFS on the NVMe SSD > with the official Orange Pi Debian v12 (Bookwork) ARM image. ZFS does not > seem to be referenced in the custom u-boot source code build output as > well. I followed the build instructions located at the following URL link... > > http://www.orangepi.org/orangepiwiki/index.php/Orange_Pi_5_Plus#Compile_u-boot Oh you should have told before. This uses a custom build script not part of U-Boot, probably to call U-Boot build. Please contact that project on how to change U-Boot config instead. Or look at their build.sh and figure out how it configures and builds U-Boot. > ...but am I required to apply a patch to the u-boot source for ZFS support? > If so, then that could be my problem. If a patch is required, then how > would I go about applying this accordingly? Although they seem to use an outdated and patched version v2017.09 of u-boot: probably not. Please try with enabling CMD_ZFS in your U-Boot config first. It's in the menuconfig, also in v2017.09 already. Greets Alex > > Thank you in advance for help in this matter. Kindest regards, -Stacey > Pellegrino
