M5 Launcher Support

[geoffdane927]

On my LilyGo T-Deck Pro, I want to install Tactility. But, I also want to use Meshtastic, so I have installed M5 Launcher. One problem is that this is a bootloader, and Tactility comes with its own bootloader. What should I do?

[NellowTCS]

I actually was working on something for this, and it works on my TDisplay S3.

Try this firmware!

lilygo-tdeck-single_file.zip

[NellowTCS]

By works, I mean Tactility boots and runs. I can't test the M5Launcher side of things on the TDisplay as it doesn't have a microSD card slot

[NellowTCS]

I did something dumb, this won't work (I think) for M5Launcher as this packs its own bootloader (the Tactility one)

[NellowTCS]

wait do you have a TDeck Pro or Plus?

[geoffdane927]

I have a T-Deck Plus.

[KenVanHoeylandt]

The problem is that Tactility has several extra partitions, which M5Loader doesn't support.

Most hobbyist firmwares only have a few partitions: bootloader, NVS flash and app

Tactility has 2 more: One is a read-only system one, and a read-write fatfs filesystem. The former contains system files and the latter contains user config data (and optionally app installs)

I think that M5Loader can only load the app partition, so Tactility will fail to load the filesystems from the other partitions.

In theory it's possible to have Tactiliy load all its assets from the SD card (user and system assets), but it would require the user to provision the SD card with each Tactility upgrade. Another problem is that Tactility also supports devices that don't have an SD card.
In other words: I might visit this topic again in the future, but I have no concrete plans for it yet.

[geoffdane927]

The main reason I want to do this is to be able to run Meshtasic on my T-Deck Plus and then proceed to other tasks (music, video games, possibly programming) Is there another way to do these things?