[yocto] Yocto .sdcard file missing after build

[Andrei Gherzan]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Giovanni Foiani <fnognn at unife.it> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I built some images using the latest Yocto release (with Hob) on a Ubuntu
> 10.04 32 bit, but when the process finishes (with success) I can't find
> .sdcard files into "*tmp/deploy/images*" folder.
>

Not all images create .sdcard files. What image are you talking about? sd
images are used for machines like imx / rpi where rootfs and/or kernel
and/or boot-loader are used from sd. In qemu ext3 images are used for
rootfs and kernel loaded separately.


> Some time ago I built some other images using a Ubuntu 11.04 32 bit and
> .sdcard files were created properly.
> Could it be a problem of max file size in Ubuntu 10.04?
> Another question...sdcard files that I built using Ubuntu 11.04 (32 bit)
> were about 3 GByte, is there a way or configuration to reduce this size?
>
> Yes. Use a compression extension. For example sdcard.xz.

ag
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