This is my last forward. Please stop crosspost. For those who are interested, the archives of the lacie-nas mailing list are available at: http://sequanux.org/pipermail/lacie-nas
----------------------- FORWARDED -------------------------------- From: Chris Moore <[email protected]> Hi Gerlando, I didn't receive your original message, only Thomas' reply which quoted it. Le 14/01/2010 11:28, Thomas Monjalon a écrit : > Gerlando Falauto wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> is there any plan or ongoing activity to support (and to what extent) >> LaCie NAS devices? >> I'm talking about the family of Ethernet-aware hard drives based on >> Marvell Orion/Feroceon chipsets, namely: >> d2 Network, Ethernet Disk Mini v2, 2big, 5big, Ethernet Big Disk. >> >> I noticed the trunk already supports the Orion architecture for dt2, >> wnr854t and wrt350nv2. >> >> In fact, with some (very) trivial changes I''ve been able to run >> Openwrt with a 2.6.30.10 kernel and most of the hardware working >> (drive, ethernet, usb) on my EDminiV2 with minimal effort! >> Albert Aribaud and I introduced basic EDminiV2 support into the mainline Linux kernel in 2.6.28 (IIRC). I also have some additional stuff waiting (for a long time :( ) to be tidied up for the kernel. IIRC this concerns I2C EEPROM support, improved flash support and basic power button and power-off support. I believe Albert is working on the 5big. >> After all, I believe the support for the Orion has been included into >> the mainstream kernel for a long time now, and most of the above >> devices are even included with their own machine type definition! >> >> What seems to be still unsupported is the button+LED, and the fan control. >> I noticed Lacie released the source code for pretty much all the >> software (including the driver and high level software for the above >> components!). >> There's also the USB slave device, but I'd rather pass on that. >> >> If no one else is already doing it (or has already done it), and if >> there are no licensing/distribution restrictions, I'd be glad to >> contribute on this. >> You would be welcome to. >> This integration seems just too far into advanced development, I find >> it hard to believe no one else feels the urge to make those further >> steps towards a fully working system. >> Perhaps there are known problems I am not aware of? >> >> A while ago Albert and I had some discussions with Simon Guinot about further EDminiV2 support. Unfortunately the discussions got rather bogged down and finally petered out as we didn't seem to reach agreement on the way a power-off should be done :( Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
