Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 03:45:21 +0000 From: "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com> To: Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> Cc: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction Message-ID: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201F5B337@ltcfiswmsgmb26> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BWntOtrgkstTOamTZh9_FvATd8a55ca9hCUFF1sE=2zSd4EQA@mail.gmail.com> References: <51A0DC3F.9030301@cran.org.uk> <CAK6u07WDZrWU4dnrBzQGYf%2BpbmibK7KxSUZyvie8jJQ1SMODuw@mail.gmail.com> <51A1025A.2020607@cran.org.uk> <51A14445.4060305@freebsd.org> <51A15EDF.6050600@erdgeist.org> <CA%2BWntOtrgkstTOamTZh9_FvATd8a55ca9hCUFF1sE=2zSd4EQA@mail.gmail.com>
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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. >=20 There's a GSoC project (of which I'm potential mentor) to fix that. However, you are entirely right=85 we can't in all seriousness even think a= bout using pc-sysinstall until it is solid on all architectures as bsdinsta= ll already is. GSoC project is: "Making pc-sysinstall FreeBSD ready by porting it to multi= ple architectures" --=20 Devin >=20 > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org> wro= te: >=20 >> On 26.05.13 01:07, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >>=20 >>> 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 >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> 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? >>=20 >> Regards, >>=20 >> erdgeist >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" >>=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidentia= l. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message an= d all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any ma= nner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware= that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and revie= w by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you.
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