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#226
Originally Posted by reinob View Post
I'd be happy if we could create a ready-to-flash image with rootfs on an (appropriately sized) ext2 partition (/, /boot, /usr, etc.) of the eMMC and a separate /home (ext3 or ext4) partition.

The current rootfs partition on the NAND could be either used as swap, or as a sort of "executable cache" (like SSD/HDD hybrid -> NAND/eMMC), or just left empty.

Obviously this would mean that the whole THUMB2 issue would be rendered moot (space would not be a problem anymore). Perhaps more important (but also more difficult) would be a HARDFP recompilation of the whole of Maemo
A chroot into a fresh Maemo rootfs and manual dpkg -i-ing of packages should do the trick. (of course, includes repacking the flashable image etc.)

Also, we don't have much of a problem wrt storage of apps on rootfs. The real problem is RAM, and thumb2 hopefully reduces in-memory process size.
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