Hi Cedric, thank you for contributing your unique perspective.
When Sculpt on the PinePhone happens to achieve compatibility with the needs of your SO, we will have made it! :)Hence : I'll keep an eye out for Genode. Those start-up times sound impressive. The intended use for her will be somewhat limited : sending SMS's, Matrix or Discord, photo album, maybe a bit of web browsing. VPN features would be quite intriguing, in this day and age.
In the spirit of good Q.A., I started running that "distro" on metal for several hours every day, to accumulate mileage, before I hopefully ship to an unsuspecting public in 2023.
It's amazing to see how far your project has come.
* Dynamic vfs mounting:
We will need this sooner or later. As you just stated, the devil lies in the details, in particular the lifetime management of open VFS handles. However, I keep spinning this problem in the back of my head. As preparatory work for enhancements like this, I'm currently in the process of consolidating and simplifying the VFS [1].
[1] https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues/4706Once I'm through with this, we can approach the trickiness with a simpler code base to play with.
* Drag'n'drop ("cooperative"):
Another very good point, which happens to be relevant to the PinePhone as well. Some time ago, I even sketched some ideas [2] but never came around implementing them.
[2] https://www.genode-labs.com/publications/secure-gui-2009.pdf#subsection.4.3.5
I try to pay you guys back by filing detailed and helpful tickets and such.
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