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

[Tom Zanussi]

On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 13:35 +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.
> 

This is a nice addition and thanks for fixing the smaller problems you
found.

For the whole series:

Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi at intel.com>