[Buildroot] [PATCH v6 1/5] package/bmap-tools: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 14:54:47 +0200
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:

> Ah, bmap-tool is really just about skipping holes. And it is assumed
> that the image has no hole where the data is relevant, even if only
> zeroes.

Absolutely. For example, if I build an image on my build server, and
run bmaptool create there, it finds the holes and is able to generate a
correct bmap file. If however, I first scp that image file locally, and
then run bmaptool create, it finds no holes because scp-ing the file
has replaced the holes with actual data.

Thomas
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