Hey there! I’m interested in using the mender-convert toolchain to integrate Mender into my existing Raspberry Pi Zero W “golden image.” However I’m skeptical of this decision, as I intend to move to Yocto in the near future. If I deploy devices with a Debian image processed by mender-convert, will…

Hi @phaseOne , If I deploy devices with a Debian image processed by mender-convert, will I be able to update those devices to Yocto? Any known or anticipated gotchas that I should expect along the way? This is not something that I have tested recently, but there is one gotcha and that would be th…

Migrating from mender-converted Debian to Yocto

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mirzak April 28, 2019, 10:04am 3

Also check out the “Known Issues” section here,

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B/B+

The boot partition (rpi boot firmware files) on Raspberry Pi is problematic and can even cause problems when updating Yocto -> Yocto during major releases.

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Migrating from mender-converted Debian to Yocto

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