From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 8EAD8E008EE; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:52:24 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71629E00851 for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 29 Feb 2016 11:52:14 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.22,521,1449561600"; d="scan'208";a="923684841" Received: from tnaray1-mobl1.gar.corp.intel.com (HELO peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com) ([10.255.141.193]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 29 Feb 2016 11:52:10 -0800 From: Paul Eggleton To: "Barros Pena, Belen" Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 08:52:08 +1300 Message-ID: <3422071.a5vtJpgWht@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.4.2-301.fc23.x86_64; KDE/4.14.17; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <2956615.y8hyrZheM7@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> <3845777.DZXZ3IeRVd@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org, Gary Thomas Subject: Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Standalone image writer X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:52:24 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:27:15 Barros Pena, Belen wrote: > On 29/02/2016 08:12, "yocto-bounces@yoctoproject.org on behalf of Paul > Eggleton" paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> wrote: > >There isn't a frontend UI for wic that I am aware of though - as I > >mentioned earlier image-writer has no support for it, it's just doing a > >straight dd to the device. > > We would really like to add support for wic at some point. > > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8769 True, but that's a slightly different usage of wic - i.e. preparing the formatted image, which we should support. However, writing a formatted image to an SD card / USB stick isn't something you could practically do from a web- based application I don't think - not without help from a local application at any rate. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre