Hi! The short story:
I did not achieve my proposed goal for my Google Summer of Cod project because of things I did not know about I wrote the proposal. Flip-side: There is now a solid foundation for future work. I have learned a lot, met a lot of interesting people, and will continue my involvment with Debian. (Read the long story!!) The long story: I started out with a project proposal to add support to Debian installer (d-i) for UBI [0,1]. My original thought was that this was possible to do entirely by packaging existing tools and adding a mechanism for configuring UBI to d-i/partman. By the mid-term evaluation I had a hackish showcase monolithic iso, showing this as a proof of concept. I also realized that this might not be enough. The thing I did not understand when I wrote my proposal was that d-i/partman is very dependent on GNU Parted [2], and if support for a device is not in Parted it will be very awkward to add it to d-i/partman. The week after mid-term (and during DebConf9) I perfomed a thorough investigation and decided that the way to go was to add support for MTD and UBI to GNU Parted. Wookey and I also re-evaluated the goals and schedule for the rest of the project. The new goal was to have at least GNU Parted understanding MTD flash by the end of summer. Since mid-term this is what I have been working with, the first week or so was mainly struggling with getting it building at all. Otavio and Colin helped out with during DebConf9, big thanks! The started out with me researching how Parted works and an assesment of what was needed. The remaining time I have been adding support for MTD to Parted and tuning the same. I have pushed my work so far to Alioth. [3] Results, outline for future work, and instructions to build are on the Debian wiki. [4] Best regards, Per [0] Unsorted Block Images [1] http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/index.shtml [3] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/avtobiff-guest/parted.git;a=summary [4] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/MTD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
