Update on QNAP TS-119/TS-219 kernel support

<p>

I mentioned a few weeks ago that initial kernel support for the QNAP
TS-119 and TS-219 Turbo NAS got accepted for 2.6.30 but that there were
<a href =
"http://www.cyrius.com/journal/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-219-kernel-support">some
issues left</a>.  Here's an update:

</p>

<ul>

<li>SATA: Kirkwood uses a different SATA PHY and the Orion settings
weren't quite right, leading to the timeouts I saw.  As it turns out,
Saeed Bishara from Marvell had a patch for this already and it will be
in 2.6.30-rc6.</li>

<li>Flash: writing to flash is now possible thanks to a patch from Peter
Horton that has been merged into 2.6.30-rc5.</li>

<li>Parsing the MAC address: Thomas Reitmayr created a patch to parse
the MAC address from flash but the kernel people thought this should be
done in userspace.  I haven't looked into this yet... maybe the best
solution is to document that the MAC address will change.</li>

<li>SATA lights: Thomas Reitmayr created a patch to fix this issue.</li>

</ul>

<p>

The SATA and flash fixes are already in our 2.6.29 kernel.

</p>

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