> On Feb 28, 2016, at 4:17 PM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> > wrote: > > (changing subject line so people don't miss this slight tangent) > > I'd almost completely forgotten, but the part of what we wrote for Hob to > write images to a USB stick or SD card (bitbake/bin/image-writer) is actually > a standalone application. There's not a lot to it - pick your image file and > then the device you want to write it to; it has some logic in it to not let > you accidentally write to devices that aren't USB sticks. > > A few points: > > - I'm not sure very many people know this tool exists, so it's likely it's not > being widely used. Having said that it is a nice simple UI that does the job. > > - It shares some code with Hob, but mostly not the bits with code quality > issues, though it is still GTK+ 2 based. > > - It doesn't support the advanced SD card writing functionality that has been > implented within wic over the last few releases, which is pretty important for > devices where a special partition layout is expected by the bootloader. > > - Toaster can't really have this functionality in it because it's web based > and the web server might not be running locally, so writing to a local USB > stick or SD card isn't going to be practical from there; about all it could do > is provide instructions on how to write the image once you've downloaded it. > > - I believe there are other equivalent tools out there that various distros > use for taking a downloadable ISO image and writing it to a USB stick. I > haven't done a survey to find out if if any of them work in quite the same > way; > I know some of them actually unpack the image and then re-create a filesystem > on the device, which isn't the right thing for our images. > > - We do have a command-line equivalent in the form of scripts/contrib/ddimage > in OE-Core. Of course it's command-line and thus less friendly but it does the > job (and also has some safeguards against writing to the wrong device). > > So what do we do with this? We have two choices really: > > A) Drop bitbake/bin/imagewriter along with Hob; we could potentially > resurrect it again later if desired > > B) Preserve it along with the shared modules that it requires > > Thoughts?
Option A. There are USB writer tool in your favorite distros and OSes, and I have seen people use those tools more often. > > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > > Paul Eggleton > Intel Open Source Technology Centre > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-architecture mailing list > openembedded-architect...@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-architecture
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