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| From | Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.ports.arm, linux.debian.kernel |
| Subject | Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch |
| Date | 2018-03-28 12:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <vyglr-1PT-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <vxxeH-2jg-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <vxxeH-2jg-29@gated-at.bofh.it> <vxxHI-2wX-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <vy1Ps-8kI-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <vyeWl-MM-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> wrote: > 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. Yet another solution suggested repeatedly is chained u-boot. If you can load a modern u-boot, you already take control over your device and load any kernel image you want. Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
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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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