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Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch

From Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.ports.arm, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch
Date 2018-03-28 10:50 +0200
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On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 21:25 +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 07:36:26PM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
> > There's one possibility that can bring back qnap, or even D-Link
> > DNS device:
> > - create a new flavour for armel, such as armel-none-mini
> > - the new flavour will disable many features that other common
> > kernels
> > have, such as wireless, crypto, etc.
> 
> Disable all other features, except what's needed for disk access and kexec
> (perhaps still leave serial console :)). Then with simple scripting boot
> the full featured kernel from external storage using kexec. Such minimal
> kernel should be fairly stable from maintenance point of view.

This, and similar things (like chainloading a more capable u-boot),
have been suggested repeatedly over the last few years, what is needed
is for someone to actually try/do it.

Ian.

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Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2018-03-26 12:40 +0200
  Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de> - 2018-03-26 14:20 +0200
  Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch Leigh Brown <leigh@solinno.co.uk> - 2018-03-26 18:10 +0200
  Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> - 2018-03-27 20:50 +0200
    Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> - 2018-03-28 10:50 +0200
      Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> - 2018-03-28 12:20 +0200
  Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> - 2018-03-28 03:30 +0200

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