On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> wrote: > 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.
Yet another solution suggested repeatedly is chained u-boot. If you can load a modern u-boot, you already take control over your device and load any kernel image you want. Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
