[Arm-dev] Changes for the next armhfp release/images

[Fabian Arrotin]

On 26/03/18 17:43, Uli Middelberg wrote:
> 
> Am 26.03.18 um 16:32 schrieb Fabian Arrotin:
>> Well, I don't think we ever got such request, but can be easily done :
>> appliance-creator will create the image, but it's then easy to extract
>> what we need/want with virt-tar-out/virt-copy-out :-)
> I've written some scripts which automatically compose vendor firmware,
> vendor/mainline kernel and a root filesystem for some ARM boards which
> aren't supported officially. In the past I've ripped the root filesystem
> contents from the images you've provided for the BananaPi.
>> The only question I have is the following one then : one consolidated
>> RootFS that would include /boot ? as for the actual (and new) images we
>> have /boot a separate partition, so I guess you mean the whole thing as
>> a RootFS ?
>>
> Yes, the whole thing including /boot.
> 
> For the board setup, I prefer a single partition layout as most of the
> u-boot firmware images are able to read from ext4 filesystems.
> 
> If you have installed more then one OS for your board, it's easier to
> handle them.
> 
> Cheers
> Uli   
> 

That works for me, so let me already build such RootFS with the tool, so
that you can validate that it works and we'll then be ready for that
additional change for the next release.


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Fabian Arrotin
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