From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Use genimage for disk-image creation. Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:44:39 +0200 Message-ID: <871rpb1aqw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87eetgo9o6.fsf@gmail.com> <20200327002438.527eb1d0@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36321) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jIZB4-0001cV-5j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2020 10:44:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200327002438.527eb1d0@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:24:38 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel Hi, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > from the standpoint of ARM it would be really good to be able to reuse > genimage config files from buildroot. Well, we can have a parser. :-) >From an engineering viewpoint, it seems weird to add a C parser that basically shells out to other tools when we could just invoke those commands directly and hopefully get more control and better error reporting. > In fact, partition layout is a major pain in the ass to get right on ARM. > If we want to support a large number of ARM platforms, that would > mean the partitioning would be fixed and not user-modifyable anyway. Oh, really? I=E2=80=99m surprised partitioning causes problems (though I= =E2=80=99m not familiar with embedded dev!). Ludo=E2=80=99.