Le jeudi 27 janvier 2011, Martin Michlmayr a écrit : > * Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+deb...@ortolo.eu> [2011-01-26 12:25]: > > Thanks, it already has one: > > bubba3 MACH_BUBBA3 BUBBA3 2893 > > (Bubba is the old name for Excito home servers: Bubba and Bubba|2, the > > third model's marketing name having been shortened to B3) > > While there's a machine id, there's no kernel support for this device > in the upstream kernel yet. I suggest your first step is to work on > this since Debian support will require a working kernel.
I see. They have published the support code at <http://download.excito.net/kernel/Excito_B3/2.6.37/linux-2.6.37-ex1.patch.gz>. It is quite similar to the code for other computers such as the Qnap TS-219, but it is split between three file. I am not at all a kernel hacker but it looks like it is about: • flash modules, LED, buzzer and switches that are plugged to GPIO pins; • Ethernet (two NICs); • SATA; • timer. So indeed, it should not be very usable without this code. As I said it is already written and published, but I am not sure it is yet in a state eligible for mainstream inclusion. However, not being skilled enough in C and kernel programming, I do not think I would not be able to do the required refactoring. I am quite new to the ARM world and I did no tthink there was so much small variations within a given platform (Kirkwood, I mean, not ARM as a whole). My point is not to get a custom Debian running on a given B3, as it is in fact already the case for all the B3 sold, as they come with a custom Debian, but rather to make them natively supported by pure Debian. So I am not so sure I will be able to do that port, and I should certainly not ask Excito to send me a free B3 for porting Debian to it if I cannot actually do it. -- ,--. : /` ) Tanguy Ortolo <xmpp:tan...@ortolo.eu> <irc://irc.oftc.net/Elessar> | `-' Debian Maintainer \_
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