I was looking at debian-installer and thought it would be good to see if there are maintainers (and if not, at least users) for the orion5x devices we supposedly support.
I see 3 classes of devices: 1) Linkstation: these were added by various people over the years but I don't think we had a formal maintainer in a long time. Roger Shimizu put in some effort recently but I'm not sure which devices he has to test. Looking at debian-installer, I see support for: * Buffalo Kurobox Pro: I know various Debian people had these. Are people still using these devices? Is Debian working? Is the installer working? * Buffalo Linkstation Mini (LS-WSGL): Roger pointed out that this was converted to Device Tree recently, so it's definitely broken in the installer in unstable. Adapting the build scripts to append the DT blob is easy, but can anyone test? * Buffalo Linkstation Pro/Live: no idea * Buffalo Linkstation Live V3 (LS-CHL): no idea. Any comments? Roger mentioned u-boot restrictions on the size of the kernel that we broke. Does that apply to all Linkstation devices? Do we have to drop support for all of them in stretch? 2) HP Media Vault mv2120: this used to work fine and had users but I haven't heard anything recently. Any users? 3) QNAP TS-109/TS-209 and QNAP TS-409: we dropped installer support in 2011 due to the installer ramdisk being too large to fit in flash, but I brought support back to life in the last few days thanks to XZ compression and some other changes. There's a problem with qcontrol but otherwise they work fine. I'm happy to take care of them for stretch. [and I should add 4) D-Link DNS-323: the Debian kernel team dropped support due to size limits and this is not coming back.] -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/