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From: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
To: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Drop dosfstools -d feature in favor of mtools mcopy
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:36:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EEAE704.9060003@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1324015563.git.dvhart@linux.intel.com>



On 12/15/2011 10:14 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> The dosfstools -d feature has been shown to be buggy, and even with Nitin's
> fixes applied to get directory hierarchies working, it still generates
> images that fail dosfsck and don't work with FAT32.
> 
> This series presents an alternative means of populating our live images
> using mcopy from mtools.
> 
> Applies on top of my earlier pull request:
> [PATCH 0/4] Fix grub efi menu, kernel messages, and live image dosfsck

I should add that I've built this with the fri2 BSP from the meta-intel
layer and tested EFI booting on 3 different platforms and legacy
SYSLINUX booting on 2 platforms - all using the same core-image-minimal
hddimg.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-16  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-16  6:14 [PATCH 0/2] Drop dosfstools -d feature in favor of mtools mcopy Darren Hart
2011-12-16  6:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] bootimg: Use mcopy to construct the hddimg Darren Hart
2011-12-16 16:18   ` Richard Purdie
2011-12-16  6:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] dosfstools: Remove initial directory contents feature Darren Hart
2011-12-16  7:35   ` Koen Kooi
2011-12-16 10:52     ` Richard Purdie
2011-12-16 11:29       ` Koen Kooi
2011-12-16 15:40     ` Darren Hart
2011-12-16 15:47       ` Darren Hart
2011-12-16  6:36 ` Darren Hart [this message]

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