People of lacie-nas cannot send a mail to the OpenWRT list because it is restricted to subscribed users. Not very open...
So I am forwarding their mails. -- Thomas ----------------------- FORWARDED -------------------------------- From: Simon Guinot <si...@sequanux.org> Hi Gerlando, On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:28:04AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 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. Actually, the lacie-nas project is more concerned to provide mainline kernel support for the Orion and Kirkwood based LaCie NAS. > > > > 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!). The GPIO front button is well supported (gpio-keys driver). The GPIO LEDs are well supported too (without the SATA activity blink mode). You have to use the leds-gpio driver. Concerning the GMT 762 fan, there is no driver available yet. A mainline submission is planed for soon... If you encounter issues with the EDminiV2 Linux support, some people here (including me) will be glad to help you. > > There's also the USB slave device, but I'd rather pass on that. Yes, I understand. Marvell don't have released (yet) a mainline driver for the Orion USB controller (device mode). As far I know, this driver can only be found in the "commercial" Marvell Linux patch (dual license: GPL v2 and Marvell Commercial License). The status for this driver is not clear for me but probably no one is interested in a such feature... > > > > 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. For now, we are really focused on the kernel support. It is the very first step and there is still a lot of work... Of course, it would be nice to have a full featured userspace support :) > > Perhaps there are known problems I am not aware of? No, I don't think. Thanks. Simon _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
