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

[Yi Qingliang]

can we compile android system using oe?
the Makefile system of android is too complicated to load/use.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Nicolas Dechesne
<nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org> wrote:
> 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.
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