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Re: Use genimage for disk-image creation.
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Use genimage for disk-image creation. |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:24:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
Vagrant Cascadian <address@hidden> skribis:
> On 2020-03-29, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>> Hi Ludo,
>>
>> On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:44:39 +0200
>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, really? I’m surprised partitioning causes problems (though I’m
>>> not familiar with embedded dev!).
>>
>> Well, maybe not that bad, but it's pretty bad.
>>
>> It's because the boot sector for ARM, for some unfathomable reason, is not
>> the first sector but has basically a vendor-dependent sector number somewhere
>> in the middle of the disk :P
Oh I see, I actually noticed that in (gnu bootloader u-boot) and in
Buildroot, it’s terrrrible.
> I haven't really looked at buildroot at all... but I suspect buildroot
> is just a collection of all these criteria applied on a board-by-board
> basis, but most of these boards don't actually require specific
> partition layout, per se, it's just nice to not clobber the raw offsets
> of various parts of the boot process... but creating partitions for each
> of those can make installation less error-prone in some cases.
Yeah, I guess we could keep importing them like Danny did in the past,
but of course it would be nice to have an automated process to do that.
Ludo’.
- Re: Use genimage for disk-image creation., (continued)