[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm PATCH v2 3/5] imx-base.inc, mxs-base.inc: Change default image to sdcard.gz

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> The sdcard image can be compressed for easier download and transfer
>> between machine when doing the development. For it, we can change it
>> for sdcard.gz so the image generation backend handles the compression
>> steps.
>
> --
> Replace .sdcard image to sdcard.gz image as a default image type for
> all machines.
>
> The SDCard class has the feature of compress the generated .sdcard image.
> It can be used to ease the exchange of this image among developers or machines.
> --
>
> My suggestion follow the order WHAT -> WHY

Great. I applied locally.

>> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v2: None
>>
>>  conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc | 2 +-
>>  conf/machine/include/mxs-base.inc | 2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc b/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc
>> index 799067d..b0dca6a 100644
>> --- a/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc
>> +++ b/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc
>> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ IMX_DEFAULT_KERNEL_mx6ul = "linux-imx"
>>  PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ??= "${IMX_DEFAULT_KERNEL}"
>>
>>  SDCARD_ROOTFS ?= "${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext3"
>> -IMAGE_FSTYPES ?= "ext3 sdcard"
>> +IMAGE_FSTYPES ?= "ext3 sdcard.gz"
>
> I understand it's the best for a server. But it's not good for my
> local development.
>
> It will add 2 useless steps in my normal development cycle: 1-
> compress 2- uncompress
>
> Are we assuming  majority of FSL Community BSP is client of a server,
> or are we assuming they are individual developers?

This is a valid point, indeed.

I usually do:

zcat image.sdcard.gz | dd of=/dev/xxx bs=4M

Do you think we ought to keep the normal .sdcard as default?

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