On 20 May 2011 18:27, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 20 May 2011 18:10, David Gilbert <david.gilb...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 20 May 2011 17:50, Paul Larson <paul.lar...@linaro.org> wrote:
>>> The Ubuntu Images have an extra bit that happens on first boot where it
>>> expands itself to consume your entire SD card.
>>
>> Sounds a good trick; can't we just use that as well?
>
> We discussed that at the UDS session; although it's good for
> an image which is intended to be installed once and then used
> a lot thereafter, it doesn't work quite so well for one-off
> testing, since it makes the initial startup a lot slower (and
> the extra work can be unhelpful if you were eg interested in
> timing or profiling system boot).

OK, so that just needs to have the resize disabled by default, and a command
that is run that enables it and causes it to happen at next boot.

Dave

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