[yocto] raspberrypi image questions

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 05 September 2012 22:57:22 Jack Mitchell wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 22:46, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 September 2012 12:16:44 Gary Thomas wrote:
> >> Also, is it possible to just build the SD image much like I do for
> >> other devices like the BeagleBoard, albeit with different contents
> >> in /boot?  Sloshing around 4GB images is rather painful, plus it
> >> takes forever to DD it to the SD card.
> > 
> > I must be missing something - do you want the rootfs larger or don't you?
> > If it's expanded it will take up 4GB minus the boot partition size so
> > you're into a large dd again...
> 
> I think what he means (or this is what I would like to see ) is a
> boot.tar.gz and a rootfs.tar.gz which can then be extracted straight
> onto the partitions? Hence only a ~40mb boot write and ~50mb rootfs
> write rather than a 4GB dd slog.

Ah, I see, that makes more sense. Another thing to add to the meta-raspberrypi 
issue tracker.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre