Re: F21 disk image idea

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Hi,

Sorry for jumping in at them middle of the thread, I skimmed
over it, without realizing that this is something I'm very much
interested in. As you probably have seen I plan to add
official allwinner support to F-21:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AllwinnerSunxiSupport

I personally like what I'm doing with the Allwinner remix images
better then the 2 images to dd idea.

What I've there is:
1) A boards dir on the boot partition which contains
u-boot .bin files as well as dtb files for all supported
boards

2) A script "select-boards.sh" which can be run from the sdcard
when inserted into any linux machine (*), which then presents
a (ncurses) menu to the user allowing the user to select his
board, and then does all the needed setup to get the image
ready for that board.

This has the big advantage that once the image has been written to
an sdcard, it can be used with any supported board, just run
the script to change it to another board. For devel and qa
purposes this is much easier then needing to have a list
of boot.img files somewhere which then need to be dd-ed to
the card on a PC to switch it to a different board (if the dd
step will even still work a second time).

It also avoids needing to present a download page with a
gazillion boot img files. Currently the allwinner images
contain support for 52 boards, and this allwinner devices
alone!

I was already planning on making my script work with more
devices then just allwinner devices and making it part of
the F-21 images. So yes I'm willing to spend time on this.

Regards,

Hans



*) Including from an arm machine running from the card to switch
the image from one board to another without needing to put
it into a PC in between.
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