[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] board/freescale: switch create-boot-sd.sh to parted

[Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>]

Hi Vincent,

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:57:06AM +0200, Vincent Stehl? wrote:
> Starting with version 2.26, sfdisk defaults to a unit of 512 B sectors.
> With those recent versions of sfdisk, the create-boot-sd.sh script ends
> up creating a boot partition of 240 KB, which is too small to contain a
> Linux kernel.
> 
> As it is difficult to address both pre and post v2.26 sfdisk versions in
> a single command, we change the create-boot-sd.sh script to use parted
> instead. While at it, we set the boot partition size to 64 MB, which
> should be enough for everyone.

You should mention in the relevant readme.txt files under board/freescale/ 
that parted needs to be installed on the host.

Alternatively, you can enable host-parted in the config files, and use that in 
create-boot-sd.sh.

> Signed-off-by: Vincent Stehl? <vincent.stehle@freescale.com>
> Cc: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
> Cc: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson@boundarydevices.com>

baruch

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