[yocto] [Openembedded-architecture] Standalone image writer

[Paul Eggleton]

On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:27:15 Barros Pena, Belen wrote:
> On 29/02/2016 08:12, "yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org on behalf of Paul
> Eggleton" <yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org on behalf of
> paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >There isn't a frontend UI for wic that I am aware of though - as I
> >mentioned earlier image-writer has no support for it, it's just doing a
> >straight dd to the device.
> 
> We would really like to add support for wic at some point.
> 
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8769

True, but that's a slightly different usage of wic - i.e. preparing the 
formatted image, which we should support. However, writing a formatted image 
to an SD card / USB stick isn't something you could practically do from a web-
based application I don't think - not without help from a local application at 
any rate.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre