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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer.mdwn index ca10a61e..43682e8b 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer.mdwn @@ -21,6 +21,21 @@ Some preliminary work has been done, see The goal is to have the Debian Installer fully working on the Hurd. It requires relatively little Hurd-specific knowledge. +A lot of the "non-Linux support" part of the project has already been done thanks to a previous GSoC, so at least no ground reason should bar the project. A lot of the required udebs are already in Debian or are pending upload, so that building an image and booting it does already work. A preliminary list of what remains is + + * Add initrd support to GNU Mach, unless youpi does it before :) This should not be very complicated by re-using the iopl driver code. + * hurdify genext2fs to handle 4096 block size by default (see bug #562999) and support translator entries. + * Port busybox. This needs to be synchronized with kfreebsd people, who have probably already done some work, but that seemingly still hasn't been merged. In the meanwhile, youpi has a version with most of it disabled so a d-i image can actually be built. + * Port keyboard-setup to configure the xkb driver of the Hurd console + +As a starting point to get a grasp at how the debian installer is built, students might wish to look at the current Debian installer source and build process on Linux: + + * svn co svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/trunk/installer/ + * cd installer/build + * make build_monolithic + +The same can be done on hurd-i386 but a few non-uploaded packages are needed, see http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/README-d-i + Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) -Exercise: Try to get one piece of the installer running on Hurd. +Exercise: Fix a couple of Hurd issues in busybox. |