[yocto] [Openembedded-architecture] Standalone image writer

[Andrei Gherzan]

I think it depends on what kind of users we are targeting. I didn't even
know about the existence of this tool (heard but can't say I know anything
about it). And all the people I am in contact with use distro specific
tools. Maybe if we target less technical people or we just want a distro
unification tool simply for ease of use, it would make sense to keep it -
even though I don't really understand why this hard separation in between
wic and image burner. Whatever you generate, you need to burn so the
process is clear and could be unified as an option.
On 2 Mar 2016 10:18 pm, "Paul Eggleton" <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
wrote:

> Hi Giordon,
>
> The image writer in question has no specific support for Xilinx boards. If
> you're having a problem relating to the Xilinx BSP and you don't get a
> response here then I'd suggest contacting the BSP maintainer(s).
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:05:44 Giordon Stark wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In a similar problem -- I find that the boot.bin file does not work out
> of
> > the box when I copy the files over to the SDCard to boot on a Xilinx
> board.
> > I end up having to open the SDK and generate a BOOT image myself using
> the
> > other files that were generated (u-boot, devicetree) with the SDK's
> > FSBL.elf. Is this a known problem or would a centralized solution for
> > creating the image solve this?
> >
> > Giordon
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 1:53 PM Paul Eggleton
> > <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
> > 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.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Paul
> > >
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