On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Christopher Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Ed Bartosh <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Enabled generation of block map(bmap) files for wic images >> built for edgerouter machine. This should simplify flashing >> images with bmaptool. >> >> [YOCTO #10621] >> >> Signed-off-by: Ed Bartosh <[email protected]> > > > I think this is more of a distro decision than machine, whether they want to > support use of bmaptool for their users/customers. It’d be nice if it was > easier to control compression from the distro, too. For example, if we want > to distribute wic.bz2+wic.bmap in our installers, it’d be nice to be able to > switch to that for all machines that use wic. I’m not sure how best to pull > that off, however. Something to think about for the future.
I think thats a good point, however, distro should be able to define something like if machine is capable of supporting feature X then lets enable it. I dont think we should add machine knowledge into distros either. > -- > Christopher Larson > clarson at kergoth dot com > Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus > Maintainer - Tslib > Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
