From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 26 17:54:34 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A35B226; Sun, 26 May 2013 17:54:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com) Received: from mx1.fisglobal.com (mx1.fisglobal.com [199.200.24.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 071ED5FF; Sun, 26 May 2013 17:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.fisglobal.com ([10.132.206.31]) by ltcfislmsgpa05.fnfis.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r4QHsQfa006108 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sun, 26 May 2013 12:54:27 -0500 Received: from LTCFISWMSGMB21.FNFIS.com ([10.132.99.23]) by LTCFISWMSGHT03.FNFIS.com ([10.132.206.31]) with mapi id 14.02.0309.002; Sun, 26 May 2013 12:54:26 -0500 From: "Teske, Devin" To: Super Bisquit Subject: Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction Thread-Topic: FreeBSD installers and future direction Thread-Index: AQHOWV60z6k72swSkkmGANUzy/EMLJkWZ1wAgAAkfQCAAE6UgIAAH7eAgAAeuACAAA8cgIAA3asAgAAPj4A= Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 17:54:26 +0000 Message-ID: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201F603E6@ltcfiswmsgmb21> References: <51A0DC3F.9030301@cran.org.uk> <51A1025A.2020607@cran.org.uk> <51A14445.4060305@freebsd.org> <51A15EDF.6050600@erdgeist.org> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201F5B337@ltcfiswmsgmb26> In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.132.253.126] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.10.8626, 1.0.431, 0.0.0000 definitions=2013-05-26_05:2013-05-24,2013-05-26,1970-01-01 signatures=0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: Dirk Engling , Devin Teske , Nathan Whitehorn , FreeBSD Hackers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Devin Teske List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 17:54:34 -0000 On May 26, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Super Bisquit wrote: May I- and others- see the hyperlink to the project, please? Absolutely=85 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/harshbha= tt/1 -- Devin On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Teske, Devin > 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=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" -- Devin > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Dirk Engling > 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? 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