[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH 3/3] sdcard-image: Use the size of the generated rootfs

[Andrei Gherzan]

On Jan 26, 2013 10:53 AM, "Jan Schmidt" <thaytan at noraisin.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 02:19 +0200, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Jan Schmidt <thaytan at noraisin.net>
> > wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > This is a good idea but you will have to align the new ROOTFS_SIZE
> > to IMAGE_ROOTFS_ALIGNMENT.
> >
> >         +       SDIMG_SIZE=$(expr ${IMAGE_ROOTFS_ALIGNMENT} +
> >         ${BOOT_SPACE_ALIGNED} + ${ROOTFS_SIZE})
> >
> >
> > So you are actually removing IMAGE_ROOTFS_ALIGNMENT space at the end
> > of the sd image. Why are you doing this? Nothing stated in the
> > comment.
>
> Sorry, yeah - I forgot to mention it. I removed it because it's
> pointless. It's not actually aligning to anything (it doesn't calculate
> an alignment based on the difference between the ROOTFS_SIZE and some
> target multiple). Instead, it was just arbitrarily padding some
> megabytes onto the end of the image file.
>

Makes sense. I added that because we had a strange bug where the final
sdimg file size was not enough. Maybe this was fixed now - something
related to parted. Please add your comment and modify the asci partition
layout in the bbclass file too.

Thanks,
Andrei

Thanks,
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