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btrfs-progs: docs: update bootloader section
Add reference to u-boot and primary super block offset. Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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@@ -790,9 +790,15 @@ BOOTLOADER SUPPORT
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GRUB2 (https://www.gnu.org/software/grub) has the most advanced support of
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booting from BTRFS with respect to features.
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U-boot (https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/) has decent support for booting but
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not all BTRFS features are implemented, check the documentation.
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EXTLINUX (from the https://syslinux.org project) can boot but does not support
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all features. Please check the upstream documentation before you use it.
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The first 1MiB on each device is unused with the exception of primary
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superblock that is on the offset 64KiB and spans 4KiB.
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