On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:59 AM Trevor Woerner <twoer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
Ya, it's an awesome tool and a huge time saver for us, so can also help maintain it > > Best regards, > Trevor > > >
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