[Soc-coordination] MTD embedded onboard flash partitioning and installation, report, week 6

[Per Andersson]

This was obviously the progress report for week 8...

I have also finished slides for DebConf.


-- Per

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Per Andersson<avtobiff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Things concerning GSoC I have done the previous two weeks:
> * Thought a lot.
> * Figured out a master plan on how to fulfill the full-time goal
>  (being able to partition, and install Debian onto, MTD flash).
>  + Drawings on paper and writing in text files summarizing,
>    designing, and exemplifying flows and user interface.
> * Understood that d-i/partman is tightly integrated with Parted.
> * Decided that Parted needs to be augmented to support MTD
>  and UBI.
> * Cloned Parted upstream repository and read code base and
>  developer docs.
> * A lot of tries and attempts to build Parted, yet without
>  success. :-(
>
> I have given my master thesis some attention as well. This
> means I have worked somewhere near half-time with GSoC.
>
> Next week I will be interrailing in Europe, having a weeks long
> wished-for holiday.
>
> The interrail tour will finish in Cáceres, Spain. Yes, that's right,
> I will attend DebConf9. See you there!
>
>
> -- Per
>