FreeBSD installers and future direction

[Super Bisquit]

May I- and others- see the hyperlink to the project,
please?


On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Teske, Devin <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com>wrote:

>
> On May 25, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Super Bisquit wrote:
>
> > Please don't turn this into an architecture dependent mess. PCBSD is
> i386 &
> > AMD64 only.
> >
>
> There's a GSoC project (of which I'm potential mentor) to fix that.
>
> However, you are entirely right… we can't in all seriousness even think
> about using pc-sysinstall until it is solid on all architectures as
> bsdinstall already is.
>
> GSoC project is: "Making pc-sysinstall FreeBSD ready by porting it to
> multiple architectures"
> --
> Devin
>
>
>
> >
> > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Dirk Engling <erdgeist at erdgeist.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 26.05.13 01:07, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm not aware of any movement there (on either side of the table). I'd
> >>> personally be very suspicious of an all-sh(1) future -- by far the
> >>> cleanest parts of bsdinstall are in C -- and this is especially true
> for
> >>> interacting with geom. That said, since I've lost nearly all of my free
> >>> time and ability to work on bsdinstall, I won't get in the way of
> anyone
> >>> else working on things
> >>
> >> As discussed at BSDCan, I'd be willing to participate in the development
> >> and at least implement setting up zpools/zfs and geli/gbde providers. I
> >> have done similar things in sh in my ezjail tools and think I can glue
> >> the rest together.
> >>
> >> Scanning through the pc-sysinstall code, I find nothing too fancy there
> >> regarding either interaction with zfs nor geom tools. I do not think it
> >> is necessary as a back end just for these features.
> >>
> >> Nathan, is there any design rationale available for the scripts, e.g. on
> >> why you chose sh versus C and were you provided with some kind of wish
> >> list/requirements in the first place? Any particular mail thread to scan
> >> through beforehand?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >>  erdgeist
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