[OE-core] [PATCH] edgerouter.conf: enable generation of wic.bmap

[Khem Raj]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Christopher Larson
<clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Enabled generation of block map(bmap) files for wic images
>> built for edgerouter machine. This should simplify flashing
>> images with bmaptool.
>>
>> [YOCTO #10621]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com>
>
>
> I think this is more of a distro decision than machine, whether they want to
> support use of bmaptool for their users/customers. It’d be nice if it was
> easier to control compression from the distro, too. For example, if we want
> to distribute wic.bz2+wic.bmap in our installers, it’d be nice to be able to
> switch to that for all machines that use wic. I’m not sure how best to pull
> that off, however. Something to think about for the future.

I think thats a good point, however, distro should be able to define
something like
if machine is capable of supporting feature X then lets enable it. I
dont think we
should add machine knowledge into distros either.

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> Christopher Larson
> clarson at kergoth dot com
> Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
> Maintainer - Tslib
> Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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