Hello, On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 12:03 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]> wrote: ... > Over-The-Air updates are a crucial part of IoT systems based on linux. > There are several OTA update frameworks available and many offer some > sort of support in yocto (e.g. meta-mender, meta-rauc). There are certain > operations that are common to all of them such as: generating binary > delta patches, system recovery, creating provisioning images etc. > > This patch proposes to add a new layer in meta-openembedded dedicated to > OTA. As the first functionality it adds a bbclass for generating binary > delta images using two popular algorithms - vcdiff and rsync. > > Such images can then be easily packaged in update artifacts for different > OTA frameworks. > > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>
I see the value of this, as we are also doing OTA update framework development, however I wonder if it is worth a new layer for this. For now, I'd say to put it inside meta-oe directly. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
