U-Boot supports access of both ext2 and ext4 filesystems, either in read-only mode or in read-write mode. First, to enable support for both ext4 (and, automatically, ext2 as well), but without selecting the corresponding commands, enable one of the following: CONFIG_FS_EXT4 (for read-only) CONFIG_EXT4_WRITE (for read-write) Next, to select the ext2-related commands: * ext2ls * ext2load or ext4-related commands: * ext4size * ext4ls * ext4load use one or both of: CONFIG_CMD_EXT2 CONFIG_CMD_EXT4 Selecting either of the above automatically selects CONFIG_FS_EXT4 if it wasn't enabled already. In addition, to get the write access command "ext4write", enable: CONFIG_CMD_EXT4_WRITE which automatically selects CONFIG_EXT4_WRITE if it wasn't defined already. Also relevant are the generic filesystem commands, selected by: CONFIG_CMD_FS_GENERIC This does not automatically enable EXT4 support for you, you still need to do that yourself. Some sample commands to test ext4 support: 1. Check that the commands can be seen in the output of U-Boot help: UBOOT #help ... ext4load- load binary file from a Ext4 file system ext4ls - list files in a directory (default /) ext4size - determine a file's size ext4write- create a file in ext4 formatted partition ... 2. To list the files in an ext4-formatted partition, run: ext4ls <interface> <dev[:part]> [directory] For example: UBOOT #ext4ls mmc 0:5 /usr/lib 3. To read and load a file from an ext4-formatted partition to RAM, run: ext4load <interface> <dev[:part]> [addr] [filename] [bytes] For example: UBOOT #ext4load mmc 2:2 0x30007fc0 uImage 4. To write a file to an ext4-formatted partition. a) First load a file to RAM at a particular address for example 0x30007fc0. Now execute ext4write command: ext4write <interface> <dev[:part]> [filename] [Address] [sizebytes] For example: UBOOT #ext4write mmc 2:2 /boot/uImage 0x30007fc0 6183120 (here 6183120 is the size of the file to be written) Note: Absolute path is required for the file to be written References : -- ext4 implementation in Linux Kernel -- Uboot existing ext2 load and ls implementation -- Journaling block device JBD2 implementation in linux Kernel