[yocto] [Openembedded-architecture] Standalone image writer

[Philip Balister]

On 02/29/2016 02:52 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> 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.

For writing the output of wic to an mmc card, I use wic. I believe it is
available as an Ubuntu package and works well on Fedora.

https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/bmaptool/bmap-tools-project

Philip

> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
>