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Re: Use genimage for disk-image creation.
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Use genimage for disk-image creation. |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:44:39 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
> from the standpoint of ARM it would be really good to be able to reuse
> genimage config files from buildroot.
Well, we can have a parser. :-)
>From an engineering viewpoint, it seems weird to add a C parser that
basically shells out to other tools when we could just invoke those
commands directly and hopefully get more control and better error
reporting.
> In fact, partition layout is a major pain in the ass to get right on ARM.
> If we want to support a large number of ARM platforms, that would
> mean the partitioning would be fixed and not user-modifyable anyway.
Oh, really? I’m surprised partitioning causes problems (though I’m
not familiar with embedded dev!).
Ludo’.