[Buildroot] [PATCH] warpboard: Generate an sdcard image

[Buildroot] [PATCH] warpboard: Generate an sdcard image

[Fabio Estevam]

From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>

Generate an sdcard.img image to make it easier the deployment of a
Buildroot image.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>
---
Hi Thomas,

This patch could be simplified if we could use the patch series from Georges:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.uclibc.buildroot/154669

 board/freescale/warpboard/genimage.cfg  | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 board/freescale/warpboard/post-image.sh | 16 +++++++++++++
 configs/warpboard_defconfig             | 10 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 67 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 board/freescale/warpboard/genimage.cfg
 create mode 100755 board/freescale/warpboard/post-image.sh

diff --git a/board/freescale/warpboard/genimage.cfg b/board/freescale/warpboard/genimage.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a22aa2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/freescale/warpboard/genimage.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Minimal SD card image for the Warp board
+#
+# We mimic the .sdcard Freescale's image format for i.MX6SL:
+# * the microSD card must have 1 kB free space at the beginning,
+# * U-Boot is dumped as is,
+# * a FAT partition at offset 8 MB is containing zImage and dtbs,
+# * a single root filesystem partition is required (Ext4 in this case).
+#
+
+image boot.vfat {
+  vfat {
+    files = {
+      "imx6sl-warp.dtb",
+      "zImage"
+    }
+  }
+  size = 16M
+}
+
+image sdcard.img {
+  hdimage {
+  }
+
+  partition u-boot {
+    in-partition-table = "no"
+    image = "u-boot.imx"
+    offset = 1024
+  }
+
+  partition boot {
+    partition-type = 0xC
+    bootable = "true"
+    image = "boot.vfat"
+    offset = 8M
+  }
+
+  partition rootfs {
+    partition-type = 0x83
+    image = "rootfs.ext4"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/board/freescale/warpboard/post-image.sh b/board/freescale/warpboard/post-image.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8757355
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/freescale/warpboard/post-image.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+BOARD_DIR="$(dirname $0)"
+GENIMAGE_CFG="${BOARD_DIR}/genimage.cfg"
+GENIMAGE_TMP="${BUILD_DIR}/genimage.tmp"
+
+rm -rf "${GENIMAGE_TMP}"
+
+genimage \
+  --rootpath "${TARGET_DIR}" \
+  --tmppath "${GENIMAGE_TMP}" \
+  --inputpath "${BINARIES_DIR}" \
+  --outputpath "${BINARIES_DIR}" \
+  --config "${GENIMAGE_CFG}"
+
+exit $?
diff --git a/configs/warpboard_defconfig b/configs/warpboard_defconfig
index 8dfe52e..562dc33 100644
--- a/configs/warpboard_defconfig
+++ b/configs/warpboard_defconfig
@@ -37,3 +37,13 @@ BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_FORMAT_IMX=y
 # host utility
 BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_DFU_UTIL=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_IMX_USB_LOADER=y
+
+# Filesystem
+BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="board/freescale/warpboard/post-image.sh"
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2=y
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_4=y
+
+# required tools to create the eMMC image
+BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_DOSFSTOOLS=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_GENIMAGE=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_MTOOLS=y
-- 
1.9.1

[Buildroot] [PATCH] warpboard: Generate an sdcard image

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:13:13 -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>
> 
> Generate an sdcard.img image to make it easier the deployment of a
> Buildroot image.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>

"configs/warpboard:" for the commit prefix.

>  board/freescale/warpboard/genimage.cfg  | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  board/freescale/warpboard/post-image.sh | 16 +++++++++++++
>  configs/warpboard_defconfig             | 10 ++++++++

An update to board/freescale/warpboard/README would be relevant as part
of this commit.

> This patch could be simplified if we could use the patch series from Georges:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.uclibc.buildroot/154669

Yes, noted. I still have this series on my list.

Thanks,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com