On 03/02/2020 01:20, Paul Wise wrote:
The other problem with image-based installation methods is that there are a ridiculous number of devices, so you have to either limit your device support, produce a prohibitively large amount of device-specific images, or figure out how to create one image that works on all devices (which won't be possible due to bootloader diversity on ARM),
D-I "solved" this problem by creating "concatenatable images", so you have a small stub image that is board-specific and contains the partition table and first stage bootloader, which you concatenate to the main board-independent image. I don't see any reason why you couldn't do the same for pre-installed images.