In the past two weeks I focused on getting network configuration working in debian-installer (d-i), without success. I skipped the keyboard layout selection, because not a top priority, and I didn't reach udeb download (and installation).
I focused on network configuration in d-i, mostly done by netcfg [din0]. I disabled unuseful udebs, to semplify debugging; in particular, I disabled the ethdetect one [din1], concentrating on those cards whose driver is automatically detected and loaded by the kernel (e.g. NE2000, as QEMU's one). I made a little portability fix in netcfg [din2] about a Linux specific PCMCIA file. While debugging netcfg, I discovered that "/var/log/syslog" is not created, even manually executing syslogd. Currently, in d-i, BusyBox syslogd is used. Even without syslogd working, I managed to go forward in netcfg debug manually running "dhclient ed0" [din3] (thanks to Julián Moreno Patiño): the "ip" command is not found, because the dhclient-script used in the dhcp3-client udeb is Linux specific; on the deb package, there is a different script for GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/Linux, but the GNU/kFreeBSD version needs "ifconfig" and "route". I considered porting and switching to BusyBox udhcpc. I also worked on * BusyBox + realizing there is a FreeBSD port [bb0] + asking upstream [bb1] for partially reverting a commit, proposing a patch rejected [bb2] because - breaking GNU/Linux build - against BusyBox policy about "#define"s, as I discovered later [bb3] + moving to [bb4] some patches: - those from the previous efforts on version 1.01 [bb6], merging them in [bb5] - those from FreeBSD [bb0], against version 1.13, almost useless; in particular @ init is disabled @ syslogd is enabled but not patched (so not working, I think) - those I wrote in previous weeks [bb7] (against version 1.13), reviewing and cleaning most of them; these [bb5] are the recommended patches to use + looking for Linux-specific code in syslogd (and logger), without success * enabling auxiliary consoles (alt-fX) in d-i [dic0] (read the commit log) * merging some patches to d-i trunk + committing already proposed patches - add cons25 terminfo file [dip0] - more fine-grained wireless building and linking in netcfg [dip1] + proposing and committing new patches - substitute Linux-specific code in get_all_ifs() using getifaddrs() [dip2] - poll() portability issue [dip3] - add ufs2 initrd support [dip4]; mkfs.ufs2 needs root rights, perhaps NetBSD makefs (or its FreeBSD [dip4_0] or MirBSD version) could be useful to run it as a normal user - fix in the kfreebsd-i386 kernel udeb ABI and a dependency version [dip5] - add kfreebsd-i386 monolithic config files [dip6] + proposing new patches (without committing them yet) - generalize rootskel splitting Linux specific stuff [dip7] (unblocked by [dip7_0]) To quickly test all this * download the mini.iso cd at [test0], built from current d-i kfreebsd branch [test1] * boot it in your favourite virtual machine + if it is qemu, "qemu -boot d -cdrom mini.iso" will suffice In the next two weeks I should (still) * get network configuration working * get udeb download and installation working For that I should work on * BusyBox + udhcpc + syslogd + understanding if [todo0] fixes some known problems or is unuseful * netcfg + network interface detected twice + filtering lo0 * rootskel + clean [dic0] for merging to d-i trunk Luca Favatella [din0] http://packages.debian.org/sid/netcfg [din1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/ethdetect [din2] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i?view=rev&revision=59287 [din3] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/trunk/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c?revision=58009&view=markup [bb0] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=busybox&stype=all [bb1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2009-July/069902.html [bb2] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2009-July/069914.html [bb3] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2009-July/069938.html [bb4] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/people/slackydeb/kfreebsd/busybox/ [bb5] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/people/slackydeb/kfreebsd/busybox/1.13/debian/ [bb6] http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/patches/ [bb7] http://slackydeb.blogspot.com/2009/05/busybox-status-on-gnukfreebsd.html [dic0] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/branches/d-i/kfreebsd/packages/rootskel/src/etc/inittab?revision=59364&view=markup [dip0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00051.html [dip1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00052.html [dip2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00142.html [dip3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00149.html [dip4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00150.html [dip4_0] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/usr.sbin/makefs/ [dip5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00365.html [dip6] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00345.html [dip7] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00343.html [dip7_0] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i?view=rev&revision=59350 [test0] http://slackydeb.altervista.org/files/debian_gnu_kfreebsd/gsoc2009_kfreebsd_progress_report_week_8/mini.iso [test1] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/branches/d-i/kfreebsd/ [todo0] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/people/slackydeb/kfreebsd/busybox/1.13/debian/include.libbb.diff?revision=59322&view=markup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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