From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.free-electrons.com (top.free-electrons.com [176.31.233.9]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FBF8605BD for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:57:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.free-electrons.com (Postfix, from userid 106) id 61C98905; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:57:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on mail.free-electrons.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,SHORTCIRCUIT, URIBL_BLOCKED shortcircuit=ham autolearn=disabled version=3.4.0 Received: from localhost (128-79-216-6.hfc.dyn.abo.bbox.fr [128.79.216.6]) by mail.free-electrons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 272EC6F3; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:57:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:57:31 +0200 From: Alexandre Belloni To: Maciej Borzecki Message-ID: <20140922125731.GB25675@piout.net> References: <1411385721-22264-1-git-send-email-maciej.borzecki@open-rnd.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1411385721-22264-1-git-send-email-maciej.borzecki@open-rnd.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Denys Dmytriyenko , Tom Zanussi , Otavio Salvador , openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [Patch 0/9]: support for generating SD images from wic X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:57:36 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, On 22/09/2014 at 13:35:12 +0200, Maciej Borzecki wrote : > This patch series is a proposal that adds support for generating SD > card images for embedded boards using wic. I did not want to cross > post to meta-ti and meta-freescale so Denys and Otavio are added in > CC. I would be glad to receive some feedback from you. > > So far, the 2 most common scenarios I've seen are that either the boot > files need to be located in a specific partition, or the bootloader is > located within the disk image, typically directly following MBR. The > series implements support for the first case. The second case should > be easily supportable on top of this code. > > Within the context of boot partition, the proposal adds a new variable > IMAGE_BOOT_FILES. The variable contains a list of files that need to > be copied to the boot partition, possibly being renamed during the > process (example BBB support lists u-boot.img and MLO, analogical > config can be made up for RsPI). By default the files are picked up > from DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE. > > Patches 1-4 solve some general problems in wic, so if these go through > review I'd recommend merging them to master. If that's more convenient > I can post them again as a separate series. > > Patches 5-8 implement IMAGE_BOOT_FILES support, wic source plugin and > a kickstart for SD card. > > Patch 9 adds IMAGE_BOOT_FILES to yocto-bsp BBB config. > For the whole series: Tested-by: Alexandre Belloni I tested on a custom am335x based platform. Thanks ! -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com