Sparse images: why your 14GB image is really 1GB
Yocto ext4 images can be tens of GB yet fail to upload because of a 2GiB per-file limit — because most of the file is holes. How to detect sparse files, compress them, and ship them the right way.
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Yocto ext4 images can be tens of GB yet fail to upload because of a 2GiB per-file limit — because most of the file is holes. How to detect sparse files, compress them, and ship them the right way.
sstate is a cache for the build machine, SDK is a toolchain for developers, eSDK packs both for offline system development. Here's how they differ and which one you want.
A build kept stalling on llvm-native and rust-native. Tracing reverse dependencies with bitbake -g led to Tegra's OP-TEE / EKS boot chain needing python3-cryptography — which is written in Rust.