TODO list for Debian on D-Link DNS-323

Someone asked me the other day what it would take to add Debian support for the D-Link DNS-323. Since we support a number of Orion based devices in debian-installer already, adding support for another device is typically fairly easy. I don't have a D-Link DNS-323 myself, but I looked around the useful DNS-323 wiki and this is what I came up. I'm sharing this list in the hope that other people are interested in working on DNS-323 support.

• The Orion kernel in Debian has support for the D-Link DNS-323 but it needs testing. Also, some patches, such as support for the fan speed chip, are not included in the mainline kernel yet.
• flash-kernel (which writes the kernel and ramdisk to flash) needs support for the DNS-323. I actually implemented this in the meantime but it's completely untested.
• oldsys-preseed reads the network configuration from your existing firmware and uses it to configure the network for debian-installer. This also needs support for the DNS-323.
• Some tools to generate proper firmware images need to be packaged for Debian.
• The debian-installer needs to generate a boot image for the DNS-323 (easy once the tools are packaged).
• Apparently the MAC address is not set automatically in u-boot and you have to run a tool called mac_read to set it. This is problematic because at the moment there's no code to set the MAC address in d-i and to make sure the newly installed system will automatically set the MAC address. This needs some work.