From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 19:32:41 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/bmap-tools: new package In-Reply-To: <20191026144101.30599-1-nicolas.carrier@orolia.com> References: <20191026144101.30599-1-nicolas.carrier@orolia.com> Message-ID: <20191026193241.50a146a8@windsurf.home> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 14:41:18 +0000 Nicolas Carrier 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com