doc: usage: cmd: load: null-block-device
Document the dispatch path added by the former commit
fs: dispatch null_dev_desc_ok filesystems before lookup
Add a null-block-device interfaces section that:
* lists the three fstypes that can benefit of it (semihosting, ubifs,
sandbox) and the CONFIG option that builds each
* explains the '-' convention for the unused <dev[:part]> field
Suggested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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Null-block-device interfaces
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----------------------------
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A few ``<interface>`` values have no underlying block device. Their
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filesystem implementations directly call a back-end (JTAG
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debugger, UBI volume, host running U-Boot under sandbox, ...) and
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ignore the ``<dev[:part]>`` field, which may be given as ``-``. So
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``load <iface> - <addr> <filename>`` works.
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semihosting
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Read files from the host filesystem of an attached JTAG debugger
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using the ARM semihosting protocol. Useful with OpenOCD.
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Built when ``CONFIG_SEMIHOSTING=y``.
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ubifs
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Read files from a UBIFS volume that has already been attached
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and mounted with the ``ubi part`` + ``ubifsmount`` commands.
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Built when ``CONFIG_CMD_UBIFS=y``.
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sandbox
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Read files from the host filesystem the sandbox binary is
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running under. Available on sandbox builds.
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The ``<dev[:part]>`` argument is conventionally written as ``-`` for
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these interfaces, to make it visible at the call site that the field
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is unused. The filesystem layer never looks at it.
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Example::
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=> load semihosting - ${kernel_addr_r} kernel.itb
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Configuration
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-------------
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