diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b7a1ccf25..93d3d5de9 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ linux (4.19.17-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   [ Vagrant Cascadian ]
   * [armhf] Enable CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_OMAP=m, used on DRA7 and related SoCs.
 
+  [ Uwe Kleine-König ]
+  * [armel] add spi-orion to mtd.udeb to be able to access spi flash on e.g.
+    qnap ts-21x. (Closes: #920607)
+
  -- Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:09:06 +0000
 
 linux (4.19.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
diff --git a/debian/installer/modules/armel-marvell/mtd-modules b/debian/installer/modules/armel-marvell/mtd-modules
index c1aeb935a..7a6d97c87 100644
--- a/debian/installer/modules/armel-marvell/mtd-modules
+++ b/debian/installer/modules/armel-marvell/mtd-modules
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ ofpart
 mtdblock
 physmap_of
 cmdlinepart
+spi-orion