Note that, although not explicitly specified in the changelog, version
3.7 renamed the file COPYING to LICENSE, requiring corresponding changes
in Bildroot related to the license file (specifically, the name and hash).
Release notes:
- bmap-tools 3.7:
* Use GitHub Actions for CI (#109)
* Add `poetry` for dependency management and `black` for code
formatting (#104)
* Add functionality for copying from standard input (#99)
* Switch from gpg to gpgme module (#103)
- bmaptool 3.8.0:
* use 'df -P' for POSIX portable output
* bmaptool has new maintainers
* bmaptool has a new home
* bmaptool is now only called 'bmaptool' and not one of a dozen such
variations
* switch to use an X.Y.Z versioning number scheme
Signed-off-by: Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Historically, the package was named bmap-tools, and that's the name
under which it was introduced in Buildroot. Since then, it has moved to
a new home (i. e. to https://github.com/yoctoproject/bmaptool) under the
Yocto Project umbrella, and got renamed to bmaptool. To avoid useless
churn, we keep the old symbols, and just refer to bmaptool in the
prompt.
Link: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20240413131757.3627575-2-dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com
Suggested-by: Yann E. Morin <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
As reported in the README file of the old GitHub URL (i.e.
https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools), "The code at this location is no
longer maintained and will likely be removed in the future. This project
has moved to https://github.com/yoctoproject/bmaptool".
Signed-off-by: Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
bmaptool allows to drastically reduce the amount of data to transfer
when writing to an SD card. Example with a 544 MiB sdcard.img:
$ bmaptool create sdcard.img > sdcard.bmap
$ gzip sdcard.img
$ bmaptool copy sdcard.img.gz /dev/sdc
bmaptool: info: discovered bmap file 'sdcard.bmap'
bmaptool: info: block map format version 2.0
bmaptool: info: 139265 blocks of size 4096 (544.0 MiB), mapped 23918 blocks (93.4 MiB or 17.2%)
bmaptool: info: copying image 'sdcard.img.gz' to block device '/dev/sdc' using bmap file 'sdcard.bmap'
bmaptool: info: 100% copied
bmaptool: info: synchronizing '/dev/sdc'
bmaptool: info: copying time: 7.7s, copying speed 12.1 MiB/sec
So it means that instead of writing 544 MiB, only 93.4 MiB had to be
written.
In terms of implementation details, compared to the target bmap-tools
package, there are fewer "selects" that are needed because:
- The dependency on setuptools is not needed, because the package
uses the setuptools SETUP_TYPE, so host-python-setuptools is
already a build dependency.
- host-python and host-python3 are always built with Expat XML
support.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Carrier <nicolas.carrier@orolia.com>
[Thomas: numerous reworks, add myself in DEVELOPERS]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
