[OE-core] [PATCH] mkefidisk.sh: add deprecation warning to the output

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Mon Nov 7 23:44:11 UTC 2016



On 11/7/16 3:00 PM, Ed Bartosh wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 02:42:39PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 31, 2016, at 3:46 AM, Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> mkefidisk.sh will soon be deprecated in favor of .wic images.
>>>
>>> Added deprecation warning to the script to inform users that
>>> this script will soon be removed from the codebase.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com>
>>> ---
>>> scripts/contrib/mkefidisk.sh | 5 +++++
>>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/scripts/contrib/mkefidisk.sh b/scripts/contrib/mkefidisk.sh
>>> index d8db3c0..a175895 100755
>>> --- a/scripts/contrib/mkefidisk.sh
>>> +++ b/scripts/contrib/mkefidisk.sh
>>> @@ -20,6 +20,11 @@
>>>
>>> LANG=C
>>>
>>> +echo
>>> +echo "WARNING: This script is deprecated and will be removed soon."
>>> +echo "Please consider using wic EFI images instead."
>>> +echo
>>> +
>>
>> is .wic image dd’able directly ?
> Yes, they are.
> 
>> We should also document, the wic steps in wiki pages e.g. http://wiki.minnowboard.org/Yocto_Project
> It's already documented in README.hardware: https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/README.hardware
> 
> And in Yocto manual:
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.2/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#building-an-image-for-hardware

Thanks, now can you also nudge the minnowboard.org to do the same ?

> 
> --
> Regards,
> Ed
> 



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