[pkg-fso-maint] What software do you (want to) use on your Freerunner?

[Per Andersson]

Hey!

2010/4/29 Thibaut Girka <thib at sitedethib.com>:
> Hi,
> As you might know, I will soon be working on debian-installer support for the Freerunner (and probably other "similar" devices) as a GSoC student[1].

Congratulations!

I will co-mentor you together with Gaudenz, hope you are ok with this. :-)


> Before starting the actual work, I would like to have your opinion on a few points:
>
> 1°) µSD, yes, but NAND?
> In any case, µSD will be supported, but do you think it is worthy to provide support for Debian on the NAND?
> It shouldn't be that hard, but I don't think there is any benefit in it, since there is only 256MB available.

Yes, I think NAND is worth it. It is very probable that devices soon will have
lots of NAND; already the Sheeva Plug has 512 MB and the Balloon Board has 1 GB.

I worked on this GSoC 2009 for Debian and was mentored by Wookey. [0,1]

The plan was to enable partitioning of MTD in d-i using UBI. The issue we ran
into (and hadn't understood beforehand) was that partitioning in d-i is tightely
integrated with GNU Parted, if (lib)parted cannot do something neither can d-i
(not totally correct but sort of). So half way through the summer I started
hacking on GNU Parted (which now recognizes MTD devices). The work so far is
available at [1] and I have plans to continue working on it, help is welcome.


[0] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2009/MTDInstallation
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/MTD


Best regards,
Per