From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] fs/squashfs: new filesystem
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 11:13:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200710111350.4ef91b67@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf51e511-8f32-5697-a76f-2c67194a8982@prevas.dk>
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:54:24 +0200
Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk> wrote:
> > It's very much like the FAT filesystem case: if you have U-Boot proper
> > and your Linux kernel image in a FAT filesystem,
>
> No, this is very much _not_ like the above. In this paragraph, you
> combine "U-Boot proper and your Linux kernel", imposing an implicit
> assumption that they are stored in the same way. Sure, _if_ both these
> items are stored in squashfs images (possibly the same, possibly
> distinct), then the thing that loads the respective images obviously
> needs squashfs (or FAT, or whatnot) support.
>
> My point is that it's possible that, say, U-Boot proper is stored in a
> FAT file system, and the kernel is stored in a UBI volume. So SPL needs
> FAT support. Why should I be forced to compile FAT support into U-Boot
> proper if U-Boot proper never needs to access a FAT filesystem? And the
> same for squashfs. Or any of the drivers or DM_ frameworks that do that
> "depends on" or "select".
Ah, I absolutely agree that it should be possible to have Squashfs in
both SPL and U-Boot proper, or only in SPL or only in U-Boot proper.
It was not clear in your initial e-mail that this was the issue you
were pointing.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-10 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-09 17:51 [PATCH 0/4] Add support for the SquashFS filesystem Joao Marcos Costa
2020-07-09 17:51 ` [PATCH 1/4] fs/squashfs: new filesystem Joao Marcos Costa
2020-07-09 19:50 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2020-07-09 20:19 ` Joao Marcos Costa
2020-07-10 8:29 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2020-07-10 8:54 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2020-07-10 9:13 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2020-07-15 21:56 ` Tom Rini
2020-07-15 21:55 ` Tom Rini
2020-07-09 17:51 ` [PATCH 2/4] fs/squashfs: add filesystem commands Joao Marcos Costa
2020-07-09 17:51 ` [PATCH 3/4] fs/squashfs: add sources for zlib decompression Joao Marcos Costa
2020-07-15 19:37 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2020-07-09 17:51 ` [PATCH 4/4] fs/squashfs: add support " Joao Marcos Costa
2020-07-15 20:11 ` [PATCH 0/3] squashfs fixes Thomas Petazzoni
2020-07-15 20:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] cmd/sqfs.c, include/fs.h: fix build failures, don't expose do_sqfs_*() functions globally Thomas Petazzoni
2020-07-15 20:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] fs/squashfs: use "struct disk_partition" instead of "disk_partition_t" Thomas Petazzoni
2020-07-15 20:11 ` [PATCH 3/3] fs/squashfs: do not use CMD_RET_* defines in the filesystem code Thomas Petazzoni
2020-07-16 7:51 ` [PATCH 0/3] squashfs fixes Joao Marcos Costa
2020-07-16 8:33 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2020-07-15 20:22 ` [PATCH] fs/squashfs/sqfs.c: use sqfs_read_sblk() in sqfs_probe() Thomas Petazzoni
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