Please combine the built spiffs image into the final .bin file

[pjsg]

There is a commit about to be merged into nodemcu-firmware:dev that automates the building of the spiffs image containing files. Could you please add this file into the single .bin file that your build script generates?

-> nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware#1064

[TerryE]

Should this be optional or mandatory?

[marcelstoer]

I'll add it to https://github.com/marcelstoer/docker-nodemcu-build#options I guess.

[marcelstoer]

Will be implemented when nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware#1064 and/or nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware#1164 are merged.

Just to be clear, the aim is to use srec_cat in Dockerfile to combine and pad the .bins so that the SPIFFS image ends up at 0x78000, right? I keep learning new stuff around you guys all the time 😉.

[pjsg]

My (not yet a PR) nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware#1164 generates either one or two spiffs image files. One is to fit in a small flash (512k) and the other into a large flash (4M). The problem is that you don't want to flash the small one into a large flash as that limits the amount of free disk space. Flashing the large one takes a long time. I've switched over to the Cesanta flasher: flasher -- you just want the modified esptool.py. This goes significantly faster -- it takes me around 9 seconds to flash a 512k image.

Figuring out what people actually want with regard to this is a challenge.

[mk-pmb]

Any progress on this? Is it still relevant?