For some architectures it is necessary to reserve space on disk without
it being present in the partition table.
For example, u-boot on i.mx is placed at an offset of 1kB on the sdcard.
While it would be possible to create a partition at that offset and
place u-boot there, it would then be necessary to update the default
u-boot environment to use partition 2 on the mmc instead of partition 1.
(From OE-Core rev: 233b631ece5ee14d057932c146327065064b5196)
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Use kB instead of MB for the partition size to get a better granularity.
This is needed on some SoC (i.mx, omap) where it is necessary to create
partitions as small as 64kB.
Keep the backward compatibility by assuming MB when no unit is provided.
(From OE-Core rev: 3d4da9186016d54b76ad2fa710646de253f0f063)
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Maciej Borzecki <maciej.borzecki@open-rnd.pl>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
The first iterations of wic very shortsightedly catered to two
specific use-cases and added special-purpose params for those cases so
that they could be directly given their corresponding boot artifacts.
(hdddir and staging_data_dir).
As more use-cases are added, it becomes rather obvious that such a
scheme doens't scale, and additionally causes confusion for plugin
writers.
This removes those special cases and states explicitly in the help
text that plugins are responsible for locating their own boot
artifacts.
(From OE-Core rev: 6ba3eb5ff7c47aee6b3419fb3a348a634fe74ac9)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
The --debug option is missing from the wic help text; this adds it and
at the same time rearranges the usage into a more logical arrangement.
(From OE-Core rev: cf5144ef241d8f4ccaa3461ae5c9f89c2cf2f8d1)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
As well as any other stray instances of mic in the codebase that can
be removed.
We don't really need to carry around legacy naming, and the history is
in git.
(From OE-Core rev: 598b120406dc1d2b7e377bd1ab6f0acbef034b22)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Remove help text regarding the source and future intentions of the wic
codebase, since the code prompting those comments has now been mostly
removed.
(From OE-Core rev: dfa8626700269141f8d2f5be12c8758db7ca6473)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
This is a set of miscellaneous help text updates noticed while
transcribing wic help for the dev manual.
(From OE-Core rev: d4b350fcdedf29692673e09a0c1850cdbbe29739)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
squashfs support was recently added to wic, so document it.
(From OE-Core rev: c04043e143932fe2ea38f87d2faa8beed007671b)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
--fsoptions support was recently added to wic, so document it.
(From OE-Core rev: e2d87ad57f8aa74e748ba95f6a801a2ca665ecc4)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Fix various typoes and grammar problems noticed while transcribing for
the dev manual.
(From OE-Core rev: 79fb7d9b5a28810e3adfaf5cba0c2298810253e9)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Previous patches added help for 'wic kickstart' but forgot to add an
entry in the main help page showing its availability. Add an entry
for it.
(From OE-Core rev: 5aa212f990c3d9b90a4f06cea346b82fc5d376ba)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Add a 'wic kickstart' help section to make it easy for users to access
the kickstart reference without having to go to an external website.
(From OE-Core rev: 136137ec1c124aee89d2120abded60a5cf0562b0)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Add a general overview of wic to the help system as 'wic overview',
along with some introductory examples.
(From OE-Core rev: fa108caaa53878152e4856d32ce1ab7fe3802287)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Add a category for help topics with an initial help topic discussing
source plugins.
(From OE-Core rev: a3dbe46dd28a6fd9e6c21f6bbb6a12578df9dff3)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Add both short and long text for the new 'wic list source-plugins'
command.
(From OE-Core rev: 4f20acc10b18c7353bd73f253943372dacd957ca)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Initial implementation of the 'wic' command.
The 'wic' command generates partitioned images from existing
OpenEmbedded build artifacts. Image generation is driven by
partitioning commands contained in an 'Openembedded kickstart' (.wks)
file specified either directly on the command-line or as one of a
selection of canned .wks files (see 'wic list images'). When applied
to a given set of build artifacts, the result is an image or set of
images that can be directly written onto media and used on a
particular system.
'wic' is based loosely on the 'mic' (Meego Image Creator) framework,
but heavily modified to make direct use of OpenEmbedded build
artifacts instead of package installation and configuration, things
already incorporated int the OE artifacts.
The name 'wic' comes from 'oeic' with the 'oe' diphthong promoted to
the letter 'w', because 'oeic' is impossible to remember or pronounce.
This covers the mechanics of invoking and providing help for the
command and sub-commands; it contains hooks for future commits to
connect with the actual functionality, once implemented.
Help is integrated into the 'wic' command - see that for details on
usage.
(From OE-Core rev: 95455ae4251e06d66e60945092b784d2d9ef165c)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
