TODO list for Debian on D-Link DNS-323

<p>

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 <a href = "http://dns323.kood.org/">DNS-323 wiki</a> 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.

</p>

<ul>

<li>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.</li>

<li>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.</li>

<li>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.</li>

<li>Some tools to generate proper firmware images need to be packaged for
Debian.</li>

<li>The debian-installer needs to generate a boot image for the DNS-323
(easy once the tools are packaged).</li>

<li>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.</li>

</ul>

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