Since the last post, I was able to create the deduplicating
tarball extractor tool exactly as I described it, and everything seems to
work as expected.
The image size after compression shrank from 5.8 GiB to 5.2 GiB. :)
Now I have to figure out how to build a few different postmarket OS rootfs
variants, to give this shiny new tool a real stress test.
I'm pretty sure I can add maybe 3 postmarket OS mobile UI variants without
increasing the image size significantly. After all, the image already contains
sxmo, which is based on pmOS, so most of the base data is already in
the image.
Then, I'll implement p-boot DTB auto-selection, and the image will be ready
to enter beta state.
New kernels
I've released new 5.9 kernels with a
few more new tweaks:
- btrfs is now enabled
- preselect xor implementation, to save a few ms during boot
- a new build named
ppd-5.9 which is the kernel used in my
multi-distro image
- modem driver got some powerup fixes, and fast powerdown support, based on
testing with multi-distro image
- mount matrix for accelerometer is specified
- flash driver is enabled