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

[Thibaut GIRKA]

Le dimanche 21 mars 2010 à 23:45 +0100, Sebastian Reichel a écrit : 
> You may want to get into contact with the guy who added kirkwood
> support to Debian. There is support for network based installation
> with d-i on this platform.

Ok, I'll soon be reading d-i config files for ARM targets anyway.

> > 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.

Hm, ok, I'll do that.


By the way, if I understand well, Gaudenz have already done that,
but I've managed to boot d-i (from RAM) on the FR, using kernel from
pkg-fso and initrd from the versatile port.
Of course, it wasn't usable (keyboard needed), and I didn't go further,
but at least, it shows that USB-booting is doable and that the 2MB limit
mentioned on the doc is off (at least for GTA02, since the multi-file
u-boot image I've built exceeds 2MB).


Before doing anything else, I'm going to read docs on kernel packaging
and debian-installer, now :)

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