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Comment by tmountain

Dd is super useful for incrementally writing boot loader data to /dev device endpoints when offsets are required (multiple images).

This is very common with u-boot and eMMC/microSD devices on SBC (pi clones, etc).

It’s also generally valuable to be precise and explicit when messing with boot loader data in general.

I think the author is under appreciating these use cases.

parent tmountain 4 years ago

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