Re: Use genimage for disk-image creation.

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.