[OE-core] [RFC] IMAGE_CMD_sdimg first cut

[Joel A Fernandes]

+Koen Jason

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Joel A Fernandes <agnel.joel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Koen,
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>> Op 26 aug. 2011, om 21:54 heeft Joel A Fernandes het volgende geschreven:
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>>> Here's an initial version of the SDCard image build functionality. Its not a direct copy paste from Narcissus
>>
>> Be careful when doing that, narcissus is GPLv2, OE-core is MIT
>>
>>> , I had to replace paths and am copying files from IMAGE_ROOTFS instead of how Narcissus untars into a mount point.
>>>
>>> Not build tested.
>>>
>>> @Koen and all, here are some questions:
>>> 1. Where in openembedded-core do we store the "img.gz" template files so that they are available to image.bbclass?
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>> We don't, we can generate is everytime now that we aren't running as www-data
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>
> I didn't follow What has running as www-data or any regular user go to
> do with generating img.gz?
>
> So what you're suggesting is we run dd and fdisk to create an sdcard
> image template everytime we bitbake an image?
>
> thanks!
> Joel
>