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Removing directdisk image creation

RFC Saul Wold 2 participants 3 messages Jul 19, 2011

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Folks,

I am working on converting the live image creation into an IMAGE_FSTYPE and wanted to see if anyone was still using the directdisk images?

I propose removing the directdisk images.

I am cross-posting to get ensure a larger audience for this.

Thanks

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Saul Wold
Yocto Component Wrangler @ Intel
Yocto Project / Poky Build System
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Saul,

I apologize for my ignorance, but I'm not familiar with the "directdisk" images.

What are they and what is involved with removing them?

Regards,
Sean

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From: [email protected] [mailto:poky- [email protected]] On Behalf Of Saul Wold
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:24 AM
To: 'Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer'; [email protected]
Subject: [poky] [RFC] Removing directdisk image creation

Folks,

I am working on converting the live image creation into an IMAGE_FSTYPE and wanted to see if anyone was still using the directdisk images?

I propose removing the directdisk images.

I am cross-posting to get ensure a larger audience for this.

Thanks
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Saul Wold
Yocto Component Wrangler @ Intel
Yocto Project / Poky Build System

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Quoted 6 lines · On 07/19/2011 10:38 AM, [email protected] wrote:

Saul,

I apologize for my ignorance, but I'm not familiar with the "directdisk" images.

What are they and what is involved with removing them?

Directdisk images are images that can be directly dd'ed to a raw harddrive and booted from. They are different from "live" image which can be booted from usbstick.

currently the -directdisk images are broken in that they use a fixed partition table in a file and you end up with bad partition sizes.

To remove them, we just delete some recipes and infrastructre for them, look for anything ending with -directdisk in the reciple or class name.

Sau!

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Regards,
Sean

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:poky- [email protected]] On Behalf Of Saul Wold
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:24 AM
To: 'Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer'; [email protected]
Subject: [poky] [RFC] Removing directdisk image creation

Folks,

I am working on converting the live image creation into an IMAGE_FSTYPE and wanted to see if anyone was still using the directdisk images?

I propose removing the directdisk images.

I am cross-posting to get ensure a larger audience for this.

Thanks
--
Sau!

Saul Wold
Yocto Component Wrangler @ Intel
Yocto Project / Poky Build System

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