Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-28 Thread Carsey, Jaben
; de...@ml01.01.org > Subject: Re: [edk2] EXT FS support > Importance: High > > On 11/22/16 22:31, Rod Smith wrote: > > On 11/22/2016 01:25 PM, Pete Batard wrote: > >> On 2016.11.22 17:16, Marcin Wojtas wrote: > >>> There's no GRUB, platform simply boots to

Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-23 Thread Rebecca Cran
On 11/23/16 1:11 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: Separately, a small note on ext4 (because you mention it above). I seem to recall a filesystem expert colleague of mine advise *against* using journaled filesystems for booting with e.g. grub2. The argument goes (if I recall right), XFS is considered

Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-23 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 11/23/16 21:01, Michael Zimmermann wrote: > Laszlo, > > can you explain the problems with putting GPL code in the fdf? No. I'm not a lawyer. I just repeated what I heard / read elsewhere, and provided a link. Personally I wouldn't try distributing such combinations, just to be on the safe

Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-23 Thread Michael Zimmermann
Laszlo, can you explain the problems with putting GPL code in the fdf? afaik every efi file is like a small self-contained application and shouldn't the UEFI API's be excluded from derived work like the linux kernel's system call table? Thanks Michael On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Laszlo

Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-23 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 11/22/16 22:31, Rod Smith wrote: > On 11/22/2016 01:25 PM, Pete Batard wrote: >> On 2016.11.22 17:16, Marcin Wojtas wrote: >>> There's no GRUB, platform simply boots to the Shell. >> >> I think there may be some confusion. >> >> All the drivers we linked you to are pure UEFI drivers. It doesn't

Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-22 Thread Rod Smith
On 11/22/2016 01:25 PM, Pete Batard wrote: > On 2016.11.22 17:16, Marcin Wojtas wrote: >> There's no GRUB, platform simply boots to the Shell. > > I think there may be some confusion. > > All the drivers we linked you to are pure UEFI drivers. It doesn't > matter if they were a port from GRUB or

Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-22 Thread Pete Batard
On 2016.11.22 17:16, Marcin Wojtas wrote: There's no GRUB, platform simply boots to the Shell. I think there may be some confusion. All the drivers we linked you to are pure UEFI drivers. It doesn't matter if they were a port from GRUB or something else, the code was converted to work as a

Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-22 Thread Pete Batard
Hi Rebecca, On 2016.11.22 16:41, Rebecca Cran wrote: Have you seen the UEFI filesystem drivers from the rEFInd project, at https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/code/ci/master/tree/filesystems/ ? I did. But I had some concerns over the licensing at the time (which I shared with Rod Smith) and

Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-22 Thread Marcin Wojtas
Thank you all, I also found this: https://sourceforge.net/p/cloverefiboot/code/HEAD/tree/FileSystems/VBoxFsDxe/ I'll specify more my needs. I use ARMv8 platform on top of the newest OpenPlatformPackage (linaro/master) in order to build and work as a part of EDK2 tianocore/master. There's no

Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-22 Thread Michael Zimmermann
I wouldn't call this a stable implementation atm but I've ported all filesystems supported by the linux kernel(ntfs, ext2/3/4, f2fs, ...) including write support to UEFI using the LKL(Linux Kernel Library) project. https://github.com/efidroid/uefi_apps_LKL Thanks Michael On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at

Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-22 Thread Rebecca Cran
On 11/22/16 9:19 AM, Pete Batard wrote: Hi Marcin, I can't speak for EDK2 integration plans, but as far as side-projects are concerned, I have been porting the various GRUB *read-only* file systems into standalone UEFI drivers. This includes an ext2/3/4 driver if you are interested (and you can

Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-22 Thread Rebecca Cran
On 11/22/16 8:25 AM, Marcin Wojtas wrote: Hello everyone, Is there any plan of adding EXT filesystem support to EDK2? If not officially is there a chance that it exists on some old branch, or in any side project? The rEFInd boot manager (http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind) has drivers for

Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-22 Thread Pete Batard
Hi Marcin, I can't speak for EDK2 integration plans, but as far as side-projects are concerned, I have been porting the various GRUB *read-only* file systems into standalone UEFI drivers. This includes an ext2/3/4 driver if you are interested (and you can live without write support). Please