On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 12:26 +0200, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> 
> On Jan 26, 2013 10:53 AM, "Jan Schmidt" <thay...@noraisin.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 02:19 +0200, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Jan Schmidt
> <thay...@noraisin.net>
> > > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > This is a good idea but you will have to align the new ROOTFS_SIZE
> > > to IMAGE_ROOTFS_ALIGNMENT.
> > >
> > >         +       SDIMG_SIZE=$(expr ${IMAGE_ROOTFS_ALIGNMENT} +
> > >         ${BOOT_SPACE_ALIGNED} + ${ROOTFS_SIZE})
> > >
> > >
> > > So you are actually removing IMAGE_ROOTFS_ALIGNMENT space at the
> end
> > > of the sd image. Why are you doing this? Nothing stated in the
> > > comment.
> >
> > Sorry, yeah - I forgot to mention it. I removed it because it's
> > pointless. It's not actually aligning to anything (it doesn't
> calculate
> > an alignment based on the difference between the ROOTFS_SIZE and
> some
> > target multiple). Instead, it was just arbitrarily padding some
> > megabytes onto the end of the image file.
> >
> 
> Makes sense. I added that because we had a strange bug where the final
> sdimg file size was not enough. Maybe this was fixed now - something
> related to parted. Please add your comment and modify the asci
> partition layout in the bbclass file too.

It may have been the use of the inherited ROOTFS_SIZE, which will be
slightly smaller than the ext3 fs produced, because it measure the size
of the contents of the fs.

I'll re-send the patch.

> 
> Thanks,
> Andrei
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 

-- 
Jan Schmidt <thay...@noraisin.net>

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