[yocto] wic status

[Philip Balister]

On 07/17/2014 08:25 AM, Maciek Borzecki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There used to be an entry about wic in development manual back in 1.5.2:
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.5.2/dev-manual/dev-manual.html

I'm not sure where the docs are, but people are responding to bug
reports about wic with patches :)

https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6513

Philip

> 
> This entry is gone in current documentation and there seems to be no
> mention of wic at all:
> https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html
> 
> Does this mean that wic is deprecated? If so what is the current method
> of creating partitioned images?
> 
> I'm a bit confused as it seems meta-raspberrypi keeps maitaining
> sdcard_image-rpi.bbclass, Freescale has their image_types_fsl.bbclass.
> In meta-ti, there was this commit:
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-ti/commit/?id=2b524321a25c35c5f987b8331e41b49d3b2e2d2b that effectively removed sdclass_image.bbclass, indicating that wic is the new way.
>