Hi John,
I am itching to try the various presets, and was wondering if any of the
following ideas would be feasible:
- Providing an on-disk depot for the presets. (Excluding the web
browser, which would be useless without connectivity anyway, seems like
it would keep the size down.)
since you are building Sculpt images manually, you can craft an
offline-usable image with the following tweaks.
- Slim down Sculpt in 'allwinner/sculpt/phone-pinephone.sculpt'.
For a start, I would leave out all presets except for nano3d (for
testing) and also remove the launchers.
- Add the following line to 'phone-pinephone.sculpt':
ram_fs: depot
This tells Sculpt's RAM file system to mount a tar archive as a pre-
populated depot when started (it selects the config snippet at [1]).
- Build sculpt with 'DEPOT=tar' instead of 'DEPOT=omit'. This will
integrate all depot content in the form of a tar file into the image.
At runtime, this tar archive can then get picked up by the RAM file
system.
After booting the fresh baked scenario (using fastboot [2] is much
recommended), select the "ram fs" component in the runtime graph and
activate "Use". This way, Sculpt will use the RAM file system as Sculpt
partition and thereby use the pre-populated depot. Now, you should be
able to activate the nano3d preset.
[1]
https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/blob/master/repos/gems/sculpt/ram_fs/depot
[2] https://genodians.org/nfeske/2021-09-20-pine-fun-pinephone-boot
That's my usual work flow during Sculpt-image integration work. It does
not touch the SD-card at all, which is very convenient for iterating
quickly and crafting presents one by one.
It would be very cool if you get it to work because it opens up a lot of
opportunities for experimentation.
Cheers
Norman
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