On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 21:25 +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 07:36:26PM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > > There's one possibility that can bring back qnap, or even D-Link > > DNS device: > > - create a new flavour for armel, such as armel-none-mini > > - the new flavour will disable many features that other common > > kernels > > have, such as wireless, crypto, etc. > > Disable all other features, except what's needed for disk access and kexec > (perhaps still leave serial console :)). Then with simple scripting boot > the full featured kernel from external storage using kexec. Such minimal > kernel should be fairly stable from maintenance point of view.
This, and similar things (like chainloading a more capable u-boot), have been suggested repeatedly over the last few years, what is needed is for someone to actually try/do it. Ian.
