Hi Martin, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> (2016-01-03): > The QNAP TS-109, TS-209 and TS-409 NAS devices were supported by > Debian installer until Debian 6.0. They were dropped for 7.0 because > the installer initrd would no longer fit in flash. (Debian itself > continued to work fine, just without an installer.) Users were told > to install with Debian 6.0 and then upgrade to 7.0 and now to 8.0. > Recently, Debian 6.0 was removed from the Debian mirrors and I > received a number of emails from users. Fortunately, they can use > archive.debian.org to install Debian 6.0. > > However, this prompted me into getting a TS-109 from eBay. As it > turns out, we can support these devices in both stable and unstable > thanks to XZ compression and some other minor changes. > > I commited the changes to debian-installer git master last week and > performed a successful installation of stretch. I cherry picked the > changes to the jessie branch and also performed a successful > installation. Great! > I'd like to apply the changes to the jessie branch before 8.3. Is > that ok? I think it falls under "hardware support" and has only a > small possibility of breaking stuff (I renamed the TS-x1x initrd for > consistency.) First thing: I'm very fine with the kind of changes you're proposing. As far as timing goes: If it were a random set of changes, I'd slightly prefer if we could release a new stretch d-i version first (and get some testing with it); but since you authored these patches and tested the resulting image, I think it's reasonable not to wait. Just a reminder: Stretch should get its new release somewhen this week if stuff goes fine; and p-u freeze is the weekend after that (Jan 16-17). I haven't checked with the release folks yet whether they have more changes affecting d-i yet, so not sure whether d-i's getting uploaded before p-u freeze or afterwards. > FWIW, I need: > > git cherry-pick 065730 # Exclude usb-serial-modules from the armel network-console image > git cherry-pick f94738 # Exclude usb-modules explicitly on armel/orion5x network-console > git cherry-pick 3966d6 # Drop the file extension from the initrd for QNAP devices > git cherry-pick a89d48 # Re-introduce installer images for QNAP TS-x09 > git cherry-pick b81fcc # Drop the initrd extension for QNAP It seems the patches you posted all were generated with -x, which is nice. I'd normally use -s as well when cherry-picking, but that's not really needed since you're the original author anyway. So, from my point of view, looks like you can push all these. Thanks! Mraw, KiBi.
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