[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 00/11] binman: A tool for creating firmware images

[Simon Glass]

Hi Marcel,

On 1 November 2016 at 16:19, Marcel Ziswiler
<marcel.ziswiler at toradex.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon
>
> That sounds somewhat similar to the new OpenEmbedded Image Creator tool
> called WIC (e.g. see slide 27ff here https://www.yoctoproject.org/sites
> /default/files/yocto_devday_advanced_class_berlin_1.pdf).

Thanks for the link. Yes there are definitely similarities, one
operations on firmware images and one operates on disk images. I
suppose that makes sense since with U-Boot we are mostly interested in
generating a valid firmware binary, whereas OpenEmbedded is concerned
with creating a disk image with various partitions, etc.

I suspect that the U-Boot image may end up providing one of the inputs
into OpenEmbedded. However all the examples (on p35) refer to EFI so
I'm not sure if that is too low-level for WIC?

Regards,
Simon
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