[PATCH 2/2] Documentation: blspec: Document blspec over NFS

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue May 26 07:10:58 PDT 2015


We support booting blspec entries found on NFS servers, add documentation
for it.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
---
 Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst b/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst
index fd1ba56..ac44cba 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst
@@ -197,6 +197,13 @@ The entry can be listed with the -l option:
 When on barebox the SD card shows up as ``mmc1`` then this entry can be booted with
 ``boot mmc1`` or with setting ``global.boot.default`` to ``mmc1``.
 
+A bootloader spec entry can also reside on an NFS server in which case a RFC2224
+compatible NFS URI string must be passed to the boot command:
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+  boot nfs://nfshost//path/
+
 Network boot
 ------------
 
-- 
2.1.4




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