[pkg-fso-maint] GSoC d-i / FreeRunner project?

[Thibaut GIRKA]

> >> I now applied to become a mentor on the GSoC page Obey Arthur Liu
> >> mentioned.
> >>
> >> As I didnt hear anything from Thibaut in the last few days I don't know
> >> if he's still interested and if he even followed the discussion on the
> >> pkg-fso list (I CC'ed him on this mail).
> >
> > I'm still there, (almost) silently reading (docs, mailing-lists, ...),
> > and getting a bit more familiar with d-i and kernel packaging.
> >
> > I've made little concrete progress (as I've not tried to build anything
> > yet), but I'm starting to understand how the d-i stuff works.
> > I can however foresee some issues, the first one being to generate an
> > u-boot image from a kernel udeb, since I've only managed to run images
> > based on vmlinux (and not vmlniuz), but maybe I haven't tried hard
> > enough yet :)
> 
> Sound all good to me. :-)
> 
> Speaking out of own experience, I say it would be good first step if you got d-i
> to build (at all) as soon as possible.

Well, I can build kirkwood network-console target, take the initrd, and
push it in a uImage together with the kernel from pkg-fso.
Then, d-i boots, and without much surprise, fails to load module
g_ether... 

I've tried to run a kernel built from the linux-2.6 package with a
custom config, but it panicks without printing anything on the screen...
Furthermore, I didn't manage to generate a linux.bin file (well, I've
generated one, but it's 3GB large), and could only build a uImage with
the uImage target.

So, here are my current thoughts about porting d-i on the FreeRunner:
* The d-i config itself should be easy, and very close to the one for
the kirkwood target. The only thing I'm not too sure of yet is how we
should do the preseeding. Using a preseed file, or with oldsys-preseed
like the kirkwood target?
* I guess one wants to have a FreeSmartphone/whatever task containing
the packages currently installed by install.sh?
* A gta02 flavour of the Debian kernel is needed, but right now, I don't
really know how to achieve that.
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