[Buildroot] rpi: image generation

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Aug 20 07:59:06 UTC 2015


Dear Benoît Thébaudeau,

On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 00:23:50 +0200, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote:

> I have local changes for the Raspberry Pi that can automatically generate an
> image to be flashed on the SD card (e.g. with dd).
> 
> This mechanism uses genimage, so no sudo is needed. It generates a FAT32
> partition of 64 MiB and an ext4 partition that just fits its contents with a
> small free space. I also have scripts to auto-expand the ext4 partition and FS
> to fill the SD card.
> 
> Are you interested in any of this, or do you prefer to keep the current manual
> approach that makes it possible to do just anything custom?

I am interested in seeing more examples of genimage usage. I believe
Vivien Didelot, who submitted the patch to use genimage for the
Wandboard configuration, was also planning on submitting more genimage
related patches.

Best regards,

Thomas Petazzoni
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com


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