Re: [docs] where in the docs does it explain wic directives "part SPL"?

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On Thu Sep 17, 2026 at 10:18 PM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>   i'm trying to cross-reference all the wic explanations, and i read
> in the reference:
>
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/kickstart.html#openembedded-kickstart-wks-reference
>
> this in section 10.2:
>
>   part [mntpoint]
>   partition [mntpoint]
>
>   If you do not provide mntpoint, Wic creates a partition but does not
>   mount it.
>
>   The mntpoint is where the partition is mounted and must be in one of
>   the following forms:
>
>     /path: For example, “/”, “/usr”, or “/home”
>
>     swap: The created partition is used as swap space
>
> fair enough, but nothing there covers lines like this that you find
> for i.MX targets:
>
> part SPL --source rawcopy --sourceparams="file=SPL" --ondisk mmcblk
> --no-table --align 1
> part u-boot --source rawcopy
> --sourceparams="file=${UBOOT_BINARY}.tagged" --ondisk mmcblk
> --no-table --align 69
>
>
>   where is the explanation of examples like "part SPL" and "part
> u-boot"?

We are missing documentation on the various plugins supported by Wic. I would
like to get around to them at some point, but patches welcome of course.

Note: "SPL" and "u-boot" are just names here, the part that is missing doc is
"rawcopy".

Antonin