[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/bmap-tools: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 14:41:18 +0000
Nicolas Carrier <nicolas.carrier at orolia.com> wrote:

> +	  Tool to flash image files to block devices using the block map
> +	  bmaptool is a generic tool for creating the block map (bmap)
> +	  for a file, and copying files using the block map. The idea is
> +	  that large file containing unused blocks, like raw system
> +	  image files, can be copied or flashed a lot faster with
> +	  bmaptool than with traditional tools like "dd" or "cp".

Another question is that you're packaging this for the target, but it
sounds like a tool that would be mainly useful on the host to
prepare/flash a SD card. Do you have a use case for having this tool on
the target ?

Thomas
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