Hey Alex,
Many thanks for your email response! Updated compilation configuration to enable CONFIG_CMD_ZFS with make menuconfig. However, when using the build.sh script it tends to overwrite the .config file for the u-boot compile in question. Steven (CCed on this email) from Orange Pi is looking into this for me (so I believe)? Upon getting ZFS compiled into u-boot will then be the options needed to pass for booting a root ZFS partition accordingly. All supporting information regarding this would be so much appreciated! Kindest regards, -Stacey Pellegrino
On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 at 12:01, Alexander Dahl ada@thorsis.com wrote:
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/22ad69b7987eb4b10221330661db4427e40174...
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In that regard this README.zfs is somewhat outdated.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-bo...
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Although they seem to use an outdated and patched version v2017.09 of u-boot: probably not.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