Hi Artem,
On Wed 2024-01-24 @ 02:01:08 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Hello Yocto community,
>
> some parts of Yocto software (MIC?) use the 'bmap-tools' project to speed up
> image flashing.
>
> https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools
>
> I am the original author of the software, and I created it many years ago to
> speed up Tizen image flashing, and it helped a lot back at the time. It was
> also
> my first python project, so it was a lot of fun learning python while also
> creating something useful.
Thank you for your contribution, this tool has been quite useful for me over
the years.
> But after that, I stopped working on it and it was mostly Yocto folks who
> contributed changes here and there. I never had time and enough motivation to
> maintain the project further, but other folks helped.
>
> Simon McVitte was active maintainer, but he said he does not have time for it
> now as well.
>
> The project is in "github.com/intel" space, and Intel is going to archive the
> git repository soon. This basically means the repository becomes read-only
> soon.
Thank you for this update and letting us know ahead of time.
> Would Yocto community have enthusiasts to fork it and maintain the fork?
Yes, I'll volunteer to maintain it going forward. My non-stackoverflow python
knowledge is minimal, but I recently dug deeply into bmaptools to solve an
issue I had noticed. So I'm confident enough to take it over if nobody else is
interested.
Best regards,
Trevor
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