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

[Per Andersson]

2010/3/27 Thibaut GIRKA <thib at sitedethib.com>:
> 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...

Sounds like a great start.


> 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 don't exactly understand your question regarding preseeding.

What oldsys-preseed does is that it extracts settings from the device which it
uses to preseed the installation.


> * I guess one wants to have a FreeSmartphone/whatever task containing
> the packages currently installed by install.sh?

Yes.


> * A gta02 flavour of the Debian kernel is needed, but right now, I don't
> really know how to achieve that.

Gaudenz and Gismo probably knows more about this.


-- Per