From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:59:06 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] rpi: image generation In-Reply-To: <55D501F6.6000909@wsystem.com> References: <55D501F6.6000909@wsystem.com> Message-ID: <20150820095906.0b2524c2@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Beno?t Th?baudeau, On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 00:23:50 +0200, Beno?t Th?baudeau wrote: > I have local changes for the Raspberry Pi that can automatically generate an > image to be flashed on the SD card (e.g. with dd). > > This mechanism uses genimage, so no sudo is needed. It generates a FAT32 > partition of 64 MiB and an ext4 partition that just fits its contents with a > small free space. I also have scripts to auto-expand the ext4 partition and FS > to fill the SD card. > > Are you interested in any of this, or do you prefer to keep the current manual > approach that makes it possible to do just anything custom? I am interested in seeing more examples of genimage usage. I believe Vivien Didelot, who submitted the patch to use genimage for the Wandboard configuration, was also planning on submitting more genimage related patches. Best regards, Thomas Petazzoni -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com