From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RbRWn-0000g1-0R for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:44:21 +0100 Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 15 Dec 2011 22:37:21 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="102854622" Received: from unknown (HELO envy.home) ([10.255.12.224]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 15 Dec 2011 22:37:20 -0800 Message-ID: <4EEAE704.9060003@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:36:52 -0800 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110927 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Hart References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.3 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Drop dosfstools -d feature in favor of mtools mcopy X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:44:21 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/15/2011 10:14 PM, Darren Hart wrote: > The dosfstools -d feature has been shown to be buggy, and even with Nitin's > fixes applied to get directory hierarchies working, it still generates > images that fail dosfsck and don't work with FAT32. > > This series presents an alternative means of populating our live images > using mcopy from mtools. > > Applies on top of my earlier pull request: > [PATCH 0/4] Fix grub efi menu, kernel messages, and live image dosfsck I should add that I've built this with the fri2 BSP from the meta-intel layer and tested EFI booting on 3 different platforms and legacy SYSLINUX booting on 2 platforms - all using the same core-image-minimal hddimg. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel