From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:29:58 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 7/7] sam-ba: new package with host variant only In-Reply-To: <20120113092545.7aac96a8@skate> References: <201201130013.13601.arnout@mind.be> <20120113092545.7aac96a8@skate> Message-ID: <201201131029.59067.arnout@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Friday 13 January 2012 09:25:45 Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Le Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:13:13 +0100, > Arnout Vandecappelle a ?crit : > > > Buildroot is missing post-image scripting in general. You will > > typically want to package the kernel and rootfs in a compressed and > > signed image that can be distributed and installed on the target. Or > > during development, you would like to untar it to the nfsroot. > > For one project, I have added a post-image script hook, like we have > for post-build. I've used it to generate a firmware image in a special > format, bundling the kernel image and the root filesystem image. > > Does it make sense to submit such a feature? It most certainly does. Myself, I have already created six scripts like that... So I guess I'm better placed to refactor some commonalities out of them :-) Now if I only had the time to do it... (I'm still catching up on the buildroot mailing list of end of December...) Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F