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

[Gaudenz Steinlin]

Hi 

I've trimmed the list of CCs. I think everyone should already be
subscribed to pkg-fso-maint. Thibaut do you want CCs or should we
continue on the list only.

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:01:19PM +0200, Thibaut GIRKA wrote:
> Le lundi 29 mars 2010 à 11:45 +0200, Per Andersson a écrit : 
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, I know.
> What I am wondering is: should we preseed with oldsys-preseed, as
> kirkwood does? Or use a preseed file like for glantank? The later sounds
> more reliable.

AFAIK there is no config space in NAND in the freerunner that could be
used for oldsys-preseed on the freerunner. I would use a normal preseed
file which conatins the default ip configuration every freerunner
distribution I know uses (192.168.0.202). 

> 
> > > * A gta02 flavour of the Debian kernel is needed, but right now, I don't
> > > really know how to achieve that.
> > 
 
> I've built a kernel with s3c24xx drivers, but it doesn't boot on the FR
> (KP before showing anything else).
> I guess I'll need the help of the debug board (and someone to teach me
> how to use it, I've got only garbage on the serial console, for now).

I think we need a way to share work in progress patches. Subversion is
very bad for this as you have to commit everything to the central
repository. Does anyone know if it's possible to share git repositories
created with git-svn? 

Do you have a debug board? It's use as a serial console is very easy.
Just connect the debug board and the serial console is on /dev/ttyUSBx.
See http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debug_Board_v3 for more information. 
I never got mine working as a JTAG.

Gaudenz

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