Hi, Ryan Lortie kindly lent me his Yeeloong for a few weeks, so I'm working on porting d-i to it. Other people had already done lots of the usual work for a new port (the kernel, the boot loader, etc.), so I'm really just tying together some loose ends and trying to make http://wiki.debian.org/DebianYeeloong/HowTo/Install less of an involved procedure.
Done and committed/uploaded: * added loongson-2f kernel udebs * fixed partitioner to select msdos partition tables on Loongson without complaining * added d-i images (a debian-installer source package with that change probably won't be uploaded for a while, but we should get daily builds at http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/mipsel/daily/loongson-2f/ in the not too distant future anyway) In progress: * fix up partitioner to have correct checks on /boot so that PMON can read from it (it currently requires ext2r0 more or less by accident, which is too strict) * add mipsel/loongson-2f support to grub-installer To do: * wireless doesn't seem to work for me in d-i, even if I 'echo 1 >/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state', although I do have the rtl8187 module loaded and d-i does recognise that the wlan0 device exists - am I missing something? * autopartitioning recipes * make grub-installer create a suitable boot.cfg if it doesn't already exist * write text for the installation guide * edit lots of wiki pages Deferred: * it would be nice to deliver d-i images bootable using GRUB, since GRUB loads initrds faster than versions of PMON before 2010-09-13 and is generally more flexible; but the lack of EHCI support in GRUB right now makes this difficult * alternatively, it would be nice to ship a boot.cfg which loads d-i, but the PMON version installed here predates reading boot.cfg from USB by default, and the hardware owner said I could do anything with it as long as I didn't reflash, so I wouldn't be able to test this Am I missing anything that's within the domain of the installer? I must say that this is quite a nice little piece of kit. The keyboard is uncomfortably small for me (I have big hands), but that's in common with every other netbook I've seen so I won't hold that against the Yeeloong in particular. Being able to easily see exactly what the firmware is prepared to boot from is a boon for installer development; I've had to experiment and/or disassemble bits of firmware in the past. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110602131947.ga31...@riva.ucam.org
