[pkg-fso-maint] GSoC 2011 - project ideas?

[Thibaut Girka]

Le lundi 14 mars 2011 à 21:50 +0100, Luca Capello a écrit : 
> Hi there!
> 
> On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:59:35 +0100, Steffen Möller wrote:
> > last year we had the Debian installer for our beloved FreePhone
> > as a GSoC project. I never heard of any results from this, so
> > I must admit. Would be neat if someone of yours would have a pointer
> > for me on this.
> 
> There was a sort of final report sent to d-d-announce@ by the GSoC
> coordinators, but neither this [1] nor the project wiki page [2]
> contained useful informations about the final status of Thibaut's work.
> 
> [1] <http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/%3c4C972B40.3080903%40milliways.fr%3e>
> [2] <http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010/CrossbuildDebianInstaller/ThibautGirka>
> 
> If you had followed Planet Debian those days, Thibaut (cc:ed) posted
> some reports on his now defunct blog [3][4].

My bad, I've messed up with my lighttpd config, it should be up and
running now.

> All his posts, however,
> are still available through the Planet Debian search interface [5]:
> Thibaut, do you mind uploading them to the corresponding wiki page [2],
> please?

Will do so, later.

> [3] <http://gsoc.sitedethib.com/posts/End_of_GSoC/>
> [4] another reason to avoid blogging-only about official stuff, please
>     always send a report to the corresponding mailing list
> [5] <http://planet.debian.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?terms=Thibaut+Girka+GSoC&submit=Go>
> 
> > This year we are again asked to submit a GSoC project proposal.
> > I don't know enough about GT04, but a mere bring install.sh
> > back to speed again plus the one or other extra might be already
> > rather helpful. Or is there something on the kernel to work on?
> 
> Finishing d-i support is *way* better than anything else, even
> kernel-related...

As a quick sum up, with my modified code, d-i can run and install Debian on the FR. Some of this code is now in d-i, but some parts (the gta02 target itself, kernel things, and the uboot-env thing) are not.
I've dropped kernel upstreaming for now, but I've started an on-screen keyboard project so that g-i could be used on the FR or any other touchscreen-only device.
I've not really know much on the GTA04, but I suspect kernel upstreaming would be easier as things like the glamo chip have been removed.

> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca


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