[Buildroot] genimage with GPT partition

[Carlos Santos]

> From: "DATACOM" <casantos at datacom.com.br>
> To: "LP" <lpdev at cordier.org>
> Cc: "buildroot" <buildroot at busybox.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 9:57:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] genimage with GPT partition

>> From: "LP" <lpdev at cordier.org>
>> To: "DATACOM" <casantos at datacom.com.br>
>> Cc: "buildroot" <buildroot at busybox.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 8:28:17 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] genimage with GPT partition
> 
>> Hi again,
> 
>> I think support for GPT would be a useful feature to add to the back log.
>> Carlos, would it be possible for you to share your custom script? It would save
>> me a lot of time not doing it from scratch.
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> genimage does not create GPT partitions. In my current project I made a
>>> tricky post-image script which uses sfdisk, mcopy and mkfs to craft a
>>> disk image with the required partitions. It's beautifully horrendous.
> 
> I will make a simplified (and readable) version and post it somewhere.

Done: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/964267/

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Carlos Santos (Casantos) - DATACOM, P&D
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