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 * '''Name''': Thibaut Girka
 * '''Email''': thib@sitedethib.com (preferred), thibaut.girka@gmail.com
 * '''Jabber''': thib@sitedethib.com
 * '''IRC''': ThibG on Freenode and OFTC
 * '''Background''':

I'm a first year student at the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, I use Debian on my main computer (testing/unstable/experimental with appropriate apt-pinning), my personal server (Lenny release), and on my FreeRunner (on which I have installed SHR-u on the NAND, and Debian on a µSD card).

I have skills in C and Python, and I have experience in contributing FLOSS projects (and managing smaller-sized ones too).

I have also packaged a package (bluemindo) for Debian.


 * '''Additional comments about the project''':

To the user, the installation process would be to put a uImage in the FR's RAM through dfu-util, boot from it, and connect to the device using SSH through USB networking.

This would provide an easy (those steps could be automated by a script) way of running d-i on the FR without writing anything on the NAND or on the µSD card (before the installation itself).

Here is a quick time plan:

  ''' May 24 - June 6''': s3c24xx kernel flavour
    * Write a s3c24xx kernel config that would run on the GTA02 and provide at least USB networking
    * Write a patch for the linux-2.6 package
    * Write a patch for kernel udeb

  '''June 7 - June 20''': first d-i image for the FR
    * Write a preseed file for network setup
    * Create a d-i target for the FreeRunner
    * Create a FreeSmartphone task based on what is installed by install.sh

  '''June 21 - June 27''': installation script
    * Write a script that would:
      * push the d-i image using dfu-util
      * tells u-boot to boot it
      * setup network configuration
      * connect to the network console
    * Package it nicely for Debian

  '''June 28 - July 11''': gta02 kernel
    The s3c24xx kernel will run on the GTA02, but it won't contain everything needed to install Debian on a µSD card.
    * Provide patches for glamo on top of the s3c24xx kernel
    * Rebuild a u-boot image with this kernel instead of the s3c24xx one
    * Start thinking about how to get those patches included in linux-2.6
    * Prepare for the mid-term evaluation

  '''July 12 - July 25''': get a clean gta02 kernel
    * Get clean, separate, minimal patches for glamo (and other needed drivers?)
    * Talk with the Debian Kernel Team / OM upstream / kernel upstream about these patchs

  '''July 26 - August 8''': inclusion into Debian
    * Get the s3c24xx kernel — hopefully with glamo patches — into Debian
    * Get the FreeSmartphone task in Debian (in tasksel-data or in its own package)
    * Get the changes made to d-i into Debian

  '''August 9 - August 16''': Bug fixes, documentation
    * Test Debian Installer again from start to beginning with various choices
    * Fix what should be fixed
    * Document the installation process
    * Describe the work that has been done
    * Complete documentation about d-i, kernel packaging or other things if needed


I can more or less start the work now, and I'll be in less than two months, so...


 * '''Travel''': Well, traveling to New York for the Debian conference may be interesting, and I don't see a strong reason against it at the moment, but I'm not too sure about my level in spoken English and how I'd feel in a totally different environment.