Hey! 2010/4/29 Thibaut Girka <[email protected]>: > 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 _______________________________________________ pkg-fso-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-fso-maint
