Re: [PATCH] edgerouter.conf: enable generation of wic.bmap

[Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh@linux.intel.com>]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:40:38AM -0700, Christopher Larson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh@linux.intel.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Enabled generation of block map(bmap) files for wic images
> > built for edgerouter machine. This should simplify flashing
> > images with bmaptool.
> >
> > [YOCTO #10621]
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh@linux.intel.com>
> >
> 
> I think this is more of a distro decision than machine, whether they want
> to support use of bmaptool for their users/customers. It’d be nice if it
> was easier to control compression from the distro, too. For example, if we
> want to distribute wic.bz2+wic.bmap in our installers, it’d be nice to be
> able to switch to that for all machines that use wic. I’m not sure how best
> to pull that off, however. Something to think about for the future.

Thanks for pointing out to it. I did it this way for two reasons:
- IMAGE_FSTYPES was already modified in edgerouter.conf
- I wanted to enable generation of wic.bmap for subset of machines, i.e.
  only for hardware reference BSPs mentioned in README.hardware

If there is a better to do it I'd be happy to update my patch.

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Regards,
Ed