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

[Daiane Angolini]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> 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?

If I were the only person in the world I would never change to .gz

and I would say "servers, you change it on local.conf"

I can accept it though......


Daiane

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