Thread: Half-year review of Stskeeps's work as distmaster
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2010-05-01 , 11:27
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#78
Originally Posted by Stskeeps View Post
Imagine me having 10 hours a week just for N8x0 things. What do you want me to do in those hours?
In a dream world I would like:
  • proper (kernel-independent) dual-boot. KEXEC might do it, or perhaps a more capable bootloader chained off NOLO
  • a way to generate updated initfs images. Maybe some automatic machinery to which we can upload a tarball of eg updated kernel modules, bootmenu, extra binaries etc and then it overlays it on top of the proprietary stuff, does some size sanity checks and spits out an initfs-flasher deb in some appropriate repository.

In addition to that: Given the choice, how would you like to see your N8x0 in 3,6,9,12 months, with emphasis on that it should not be a waste of time for those involved to make it get there, short and long term.
In the longer term, IMHO the most imporant development would be getting as much of the hardware as possible supported in mainstream kernels.
 

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