On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Otavio Salvador <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Daiane Angolini <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Otavio Salvador >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The sdcard image can be compressed for easier download and transfer >>> between machine when doing the development. For it, we can change it >>> for sdcard.gz so the image generation backend handles the compression >>> steps. >> >> -- >> Replace .sdcard image to sdcard.gz image as a default image type for >> all machines. >> >> The SDCard class has the feature of compress the generated .sdcard image. >> It can be used to ease the exchange of this image among developers or >> machines. >> -- >> >> My suggestion follow the order WHAT -> WHY > > Great. I applied locally. > >>> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <[email protected]> >>> --- >>> >>> Changes in v2: None >>> >>> conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc | 2 +- >>> conf/machine/include/mxs-base.inc | 2 +- >>> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc >>> b/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc >>> index 799067d..b0dca6a 100644 >>> --- a/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc >>> +++ b/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc >>> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ IMX_DEFAULT_KERNEL_mx6ul = "linux-imx" >>> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ??= "${IMX_DEFAULT_KERNEL}" >>> >>> SDCARD_ROOTFS ?= "${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext3" >>> -IMAGE_FSTYPES ?= "ext3 sdcard" >>> +IMAGE_FSTYPES ?= "ext3 sdcard.gz" >> >> I understand it's the best for a server. But it's not good for my >> local development. >> >> It will add 2 useless steps in my normal development cycle: 1- >> compress 2- uncompress >> >> Are we assuming majority of FSL Community BSP is client of a server, >> or are we assuming they are individual developers? > > This is a valid point, indeed. > > I usually do: > > zcat image.sdcard.gz | dd of=/dev/xxx bs=4M > > Do you think we ought to keep the normal .sdcard as default?
If I were the only person in the world I would never change to .gz and I would say "servers, you change it on local.conf" I can accept it though...... Daiane > > -- > Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems > http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br > Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
