Future improvements for flash.sh and flash content optimizations
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Description
As noted by @JonathonHall-Purism under https://github.com/osresearch/heads/pull/1230#issuecomment-1291068570
>Additional improvements - the only suggestion I have would be to potentially just flash modified regions when changing settings - i.e. just flash the CBFS region when that's all that's needed, to avoid reading and verifying the rest of flash. Or even better, to move config, GPG keyring, etc., to their own region, so we could separate them from the payload too. There's no need to tie that to this work though
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading flash.sh and the linked pull request discussion, especially the suggestions about flashing only modified regions and separating CBFS, configuration, and GPG keyring content. Clarify which improvement is in scope before changing the flashing behavior; done means the agreed flash optimization is implemented and its effects are verified.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- embedded-iot, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100