From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/bmap-tools: new package
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 19:32:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191026193241.50a146a8@windsurf.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191026144101.30599-1-nicolas.carrier@orolia.com>
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 14:41:18 +0000
Nicolas Carrier <nicolas.carrier@orolia.com> wrote:
> + Tool to flash image files to block devices using the block map
> + bmaptool is a generic tool for creating the block map (bmap)
> + for a file, and copying files using the block map. The idea is
> + that large file containing unused blocks, like raw system
> + image files, can be copied or flashed a lot faster with
> + bmaptool than with traditional tools like "dd" or "cp".
Another question is that you're packaging this for the target, but it
sounds like a tool that would be mainly useful on the host to
prepare/flash a SD card. Do you have a use case for having this tool on
the target ?
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-26 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-26 14:41 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/bmap-tools: new package Nicolas Carrier
2019-10-26 14:41 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] support/testing/tests/package/: runtime test Nicolas Carrier
2019-10-26 17:41 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2019-10-27 9:07 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2019-10-26 17:30 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/bmap-tools: new package Thomas Petazzoni
2019-10-26 19:15 ` Nicolas Carrier
2019-10-26 17:32 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2019-10-26 19:16 ` Nicolas Carrier
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