Bug#724891: [debian-installer] debian-installer: Build firmware for the DNS-320/DNS-325
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 03:48 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 flash-kernel
>
> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (2014-03-03):
> > On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 02:25 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > I found these pages:
> > >
> > > http://jamie.lentin.co.uk/devices/dlink-dns325/
> >
> > Oh, that's exactly what Bastien linked to. Well anyway, I hope I
> > extracted the most useful information below.
>
> Certainly, thanks!
>
> > > http://jamie.lentin.co.uk/devices/dlink-dns325/keeping-original-firmware/
> > >
> > > They say that these models use a Kirkwood SoC (so the kirkwood kernel
> > > and installer flavours should be used) and that they are supported by
> > > the standard kernel package in wheezy-backports but not wheezy.
> > >
> > > Given that the instructions include writing a custom kernel install
> > > hook, I would assume that flash-kernel doesn't support these models and
> > > therefore this bug should be reassigned to flash-kernel. But there may
> > > be other changes needed elsewhere.
>
> Punting that to flash-kernel for the time being. Ian will likely know
> what to do with it. ;)
Please can someone with access to the system provide a flash-kernel
stanza for the system. After installing the flash-kernel
package /usr/share/doc/flash-kernel/README.gz will contain documentation
for (most of) the possible stanza entries
and /usr/share/flash-kernel/db/all.db will have plenty of examples. For
testing a stanza can be added to /etc/flash-kernel/db.
From
http://jamie.lentin.co.uk/devices/dlink-dns325/keeping-original-firmware/ it looks like you can boot from both NAND and the regular disk/MMC, I'd be inclined to go with installing to NAND by default, which would mean using the Mtd-Kernel/Initrd style of entries.
Ideally things would be setup to work without the need to enter all the
u-boot runes referenced on those webpages.
Ian.
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