Please contribute patches to help get support for these devices started.

Travis

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Jose Vasconcellos <jva...@verizon.net>wrote:

> Hi  Gerlando,
>
> I have one of these devices and every once in a while when it crashes
> I think I should put OpenWrt on it! Just haven't had the time. I think
> this would be a great contribution.
>
> I would recommend starting out by creating a wiki page describing the
> device and installation procedure.
>
> Regards,
> Jose
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Gerlando Falauto
> <gerlando.fala...@gmail.com> 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!
> > 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.
> > 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?
> >
> > Thank you!
> > Gerlando
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