Martin Michlmayr wrote: Well, if we are talking about 2.6.25 mainline, Buffulo/Kuro, Dlink 323 and Marvel NAS RD* Eugene San <eugenesan@gmail.com> [2007-11-24 12:01]:I am using Debian/(Armel/arm) for a long time on set of devices with Marvell ARM CPU. Lately support for those devices stabilized in 2.6.22-24.Orion support won't be in 2.6.24 but it should end up in 2.6.25 at which point I'll add Orion support to the Debian kernel.I am wondering what should be the procedure of adding additional platform to official kernel images, like iop32x and versatile?There aren't any written procedures. The big blocker for adding many new ARM flavours (platforms) to the Debian kernel is simply that the kernel package takes a really long time to compile on ARM. However, given the number of devices based on the Orion platform, it's no question that we should add an Orion flavour to our kernel packages. I'll do that for 2.6.25.Also i am looking for detailed information about how those packages are built for other platforms?Essentially, you put a config file in config/arm/config.<flavour> and make some additions to config/arm/defines. As long as Orion support is in the mainline kernel, adding an Orion flavour to the kernel packages won't be a big task. However, it would also be nice to support many Orion devices in debian-installer and that will require some work. Which device are you interested in particularly? are going to be supported by Kernel out of the box and the probably will be default for that platform. But there are some other devices available on market (Maxtor MSSII for Ex.) but they won't be officially supported by vanilla kernel. Therefor I was thinking about additional kernel images and patches against kernel-source available in debian repositories. |