[OE-core] [Patch 0/9]: support for generating SD images from wic

[Alexandre Belloni]

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 <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com>

I tested on a custom am335x based platform.

Thanks !

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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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