How can I speed up flashing SD card ( wic Image)

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Flashing an SD card using dd is slow, is there another option to increase speed?

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Florian Berndl On BEST ANSWER

Using the bmaptool should increase the speed 10+ times.

IMAGE_FSTYPES += "wic wic.bmap"
bitbake <image>

Flash the device

sudo chmod 666 /dev/sdX
oe-run-native bmap-tools-native bmaptool copy build-directory/tmp/deploy/images/<machine>/<image>.wic /dev/sdX