From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
Cc: bmeng.cn@gmail.com, joe.hershberger@ni.com, rfried.dev@gmail.com,
jerome.forissier@arm.com, jserv@ccns.ncku.edu.tw,
eleanor15x@gmail.com, marscheng@google.com, u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] fs: Add 9P filesystem support over virtio
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 10:44:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260707164412.GM749385@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260706215446.4068820-1-visitorckw@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 09:54:42PM +0000, Kuan-Wei Chiu wrote:
> Add 9P network filesystem support to U-Boot.
>
> It allows U-Boot to directly mount host directories in virtualization
> environments via virtio.
>
> The functionality has been verified on qemu arm64 by successfully
> loading a Linux kernel image and an initramfs image via 9P, and booting
> to the Linux shell.
>
> To test with QEMU:
> -fsdev local,id=fsdev0,path=/path/to/host/dir,security_model=none \
> -device virtio-9p-device,fsdev=fsdev0,mount_tag=rootfs
>
> U-Boot usage:
> => virtio scan
> => ls 9p - /
> => load 9p - $kernel_addr_r /Image
> => load 9p - $ramdisk_addr_r /initramfs.cpio
> => booti $kernel_addr_r $ramdisk_addr_r:$filesize $fdtcontroladdr
Neat. Can you please update this to include docs and tests (and likely
updating u-boot-test-hooks so QEMU is started with the required options?
We already have a bit of python so that we can pass a build directory
over to QEMU for TFTP tests, iirc). Thanks!
--
Tom
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-06 21:54 [PATCH 0/4] fs: Add 9P filesystem support over virtio Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-07-06 21:54 ` [PATCH 1/4] net: 9p: Add 9P2000 protocol support Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-07-06 21:54 ` [PATCH 2/4] fs: 9p: Add 9P filesystem support Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-07-06 21:54 ` [PATCH 3/4] virtio: 9p: Add 9P transport driver Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-07-06 21:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for 9PFS Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-07-07 16:44 ` Tom Rini [this message]
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