Re: orion5x housekeeping

[Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>]

(switching to my U-Boot mail account, just subscribed on D-A)

Hello Ian,

On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:25:22 +0000, Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 08:43 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > 
> > > * Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo (LS-WTGL)
> > > Mine still has the stock firmware.
> > > I didn't even know that it was supported by the mainline kernel.
> > > But I just checked and support was added recently in 4.3 :)
> > 
> > Roger Shimizu recently tried to add support for this device but the
> > Debian kernel doesn't boot because of some limits in u-boot:
> > "However, I found another issue, the kernel image size for orion5x is
> > already exceed the u-boot limit of LS-WTGL, the only orion5x box I
> > have on hand."
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2015/10/msg00219.html
> 
> I think this turned out to be something other than the size: 
>     https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=803159#34
> 
> I think this platform is working today, but I might be wrong, copying
> Roger.

If there is anything to be changed on mainline U-Boot to make it work,
let me know.

> Ian.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.