[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 1/2] android-tools: import android-tools from meta-smartphone into oe-core

[Nicolas Dechesne]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> compared to 'regular' ext4 images , fastboot added the (convenient)
>> ability to support sparse images, to reduce the size of what is
>> transmitted over the USB, when flashing (and reduce the size of
>> writting to eMMC). For devices with 8GB+ eMMC that is a big deal
>> whether we flash a raw ext4 image, or its sparse'd version. More info
>> about fastboot sparse format at [1].
>
> It does help for images it seems; did you see if someone has propose a
> patch for e2fstools to enable this?

no, i haven't seen anything there. Note that it would be a
fastboot-specific sparse format.