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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] configs/avenger96_defconfig: add support for Arrow Avenger96 board
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 22:09:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blcvy715.fsf@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a86ec3d8-17d5-bd4d-d6e9-f0d29071eeb4@grinn-global.com>

Hi Bartosz,

On Sun, Feb 07 2021, Bartosz Bilas wrote:
> On 2/7/21 6:00 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 07 2021, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>>> On 2021-02-07 18:09 +0200, Baruch Siach spake thusly:
>>>> On Sun, Feb 07 2021, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>> +  $ sudo dd if=output/images/sdcard.img of=/dev/sdX
>>>> Maybe warn that this overwrites data on the SD card.
>>> As far as I could see, we don't do that in any of the 72 readme.txt we
>>> already have...
>> $ git grep WARNING -- board/
>> ...
>> board/chromebook/elm/readme.txt:WARNING: make sure there is nothing important on that card,
>> board/chromebook/snow/readme.txt:WARNING: make sure there is nothing important on that card,
>> board/engicam/geam6ul/readme.txt:*** WARNING! This will destroy all the card content. Use with care! ***
>> ...
>>
> Is not that obvious that dd will overwrite the data? Imo it's superfluous
> information at all.

It might be obvious to you. Many newcomers don't know what dd is, or how
filesystem works. A warning can't hurt.

baruch

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-07 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-07 15:55 [Buildroot] [PATCH] configs/avenger96_defconfig: add support for Arrow Avenger96 board Peter Korsgaard
2021-02-07 16:09 ` Baruch Siach
2021-02-07 16:52   ` Yann E. MORIN
2021-02-07 17:00     ` Baruch Siach
2021-02-07 17:52       ` Bartosz Bilas
2021-02-07 20:09         ` Baruch Siach [this message]
2021-02-07 20:44           ` Yann E. MORIN
2021-02-07 22:12           ` Peter Korsgaard
2021-02-07 21:49   ` Peter Korsgaard

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