[pkg-fso-maint] GSoC 2010: Debian Installer on Freerunner

[Gaudenz Steinlin]

Please keep debian-boot in the loop at least as long this is alos about
d-i.

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:45:14PM +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > > Then we need a kernel configuration for the s3c24xx architecture and a
> > > patch to enable an image for this architecture for linux-2.6. The kernel
> > > configuration should be as similar as possible to the configurations of
> > > the other kernel images (especially the other arm images). This is where
> > > I stopped by the end of last year because of lack of time. If you want
> > > to continue this work I can provide you with a partially working patch
> > > for linux-2.6. 
> > 
> > Can't we use, for a start, linux-2.6-openmoko as it is?

For a start probably. But if we go this route I fear that it will stay
this way and there won't be any official images for the Freerunner for
a long time. 

Frans opinion seems to be that it's possible to commit changes to d-i
even if we use an external kernel. At Debconf9 I got the impression that
this is not what the d-i team wants.

> > 
> > I was planning to use the kernel package in pkg-fso, at least at the
> > beginning, because I don't know the main differences yet.
> > I'm interested in having a clean kernel package, however, I have no
> > experience in kernel hacking.
> 
> You should definitely contact luca. He was the one creating the
> first pkg-fso kernel package and he is the one working on a Debian
> main package afair. For the Debian main kernel package I believe
> most drivers could be done with module-assitant. The mainline kernel
> should provide CPU and audio support at least. As far as I know
> there is still no support for the display and touchscreen stuff,
> which is probably the crunchpoint. Apart from this the vibrator didn't
> work when I compiled the driver as module instead of compiling support
> into the kernel.

We don't need display support for d-i if we use the network-console
based d-i. We only need the part of the glamo necessary to access the SD
card. 

Gaudenz
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