Forgot to hit Reply all, sorry for that Luca. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Luca Capello <l...@pca.it> wrote: >>> In any case, I think that the MTD project should still have an higher >>> priority, because: >>> >>> - its use is wider (e.g. for NAS devices) >>> >>> - it involves more people (not only the pkg-fso crew), thus it is >>> probably easier to have advices >> >> I agree with both points, just an idea I had (as a >> backup proposal) if mentoring becomes a problem >> with the MTD project. > > Martin Michlmayr already blogged about it: > > http://www.cyrius.com/journal/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/nslu2-killer > > Because of that, I had the impression that the last bit missing was a > student, am I wrong, Martin?
I have asked Wookey who is willing to mentor the MTD project. Colin Watson has previously stated the he is willing to co-mentor the MTD project. >>> c. installing everything on the microSD, which means that d-i should >>> not use the microSD at all, thus it should probably be run from a >>> ramdisk. >> >> It should be possible to write d-i kernel and ramdisk >> to MTD flash and boot from that, not touching >> the microSD. > > While this is a possibility, however it means that you need to touch the > existing distribution installed the flash memory, thus if the Debian > installation will fail at any point, the phone is no more usable. But it is possible to reflash the phone (e.g. with dfu-util through NOR), so it wouldn't be bricked. Right? Best regards, Per -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
