I was thinking it may boot faster: for the one I use the on/off switch to control which TextToSpeech *.wav to play next -- since I don't know how to signal/interrupt/poll via a max of 2-wires [other than the power-leads].
The README 'reads':---- Installation ============ piCore is distributed in .zip archives containing raw SD card image which can be installed with dd command on Linux or Win32 Disk Imager on Windows. After successfully copying image to SD card it is ready to boot in Raspberry Pi.....
SD card partitioning ==================== First partition (mmcblk0p1) is VFAT type; it contains the basic piCore system and the Raspberry Pi boot loader, firmware and other support files. Partition is unmounted during operation, system is not using it after boot and never writes....
This difficult-language seems completely inconsistent with my hardware, which:
- apparently boots via the GPM [in some hidden way] and needs partition-1 of the SD the be a FAT-FS and mountable.
- dd if=piCore-5.2.2.img of= makes no longer a mountable FAT-partition
- But most strangely: piCore-5.2.2.img starts out as:
What the hell is going on?