On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:56:17AM +0100, Mike Looijmans wrote: > On 23-01-17 11:34, Ed Bartosh wrote: > ... > >>- How do I set padding to be 0xFF instead of 0x00? > >The same thing here. Currently wic images are sparse files created by > >os.ftruncate, but it's not a big deal to fill them with 0xFF > > Correct me if I'm wrong here... > - All flash media (NOR, NAND) prefers padding with 0xFF because > that's equal to an erased sector. > - Other media (magnetic disks) don't care about what they're padded with. > > So I'd say it makes sense to make 0xFF the default padding for exerything?
That would break image sparseness. -- Regards, Ed -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
