On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 01:34:40PM -0400, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Hi Simon, Hello Martin, Sorry for the delay. > > You added support for various LaCie NAS devices in Debian some time > ago, including flash-kernel and the installer. I wanted to ask the > status of this. The status is that I am terribly late. First, I need to update Linux support for LaCie/Seagate NAS. There are some boards which are still not supported by Linux. And after that, I will take a look at the Debian support. Again, a lot of board are not supported. And supported boards are probably not in a great shape... > > I just added a patch to append device tree blobs to the kernel, which > is required for the kernel in stretch: > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/commit/?id=5d5ea2ebbb7e394735de5e667c4a7c3d548db41f > > However, if I remember correctly, the LaCie devices are not supported > in oldsys-preseed (not even as default DHCP), so users still need a > serial console. On lacie-nas.org, we have a wiki page explaining how to install Debian on a LaCie NAS: http://lacie-nas.org/doku.php?id=debian_install Preseeding is documented as well: http://lacie-nas.org/doku.php?id=debian_install#prepare_network-console_files I know it is not ideal but people are able to install Debian on their NAS by following this steps. > > In Debian jessie, several devices have been converted to DT (but not > all) but the installer doesn't supply the DTB, so they are broken. > Should we fix this in jessie or remove LaCie images, or just leave it > as it works on some devices? Definitively we should fix it. How can I help ? > > I don't know if there are any users of Debian on LaCie since support > isn't documented afaik. Among the years I have helped some people to install Debian on their LaCie NAS. Thus, I know for sure there are few users out here. Thanks for taking time to write me. Simon
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