On 29/11/16 20:33, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> [2016-11-29 15:48]: >> Would you know if there has been any development in relation to the >> Annapurna Labs chips? > > Antoine Tenart from Free Electrons submitted some Alpine related > patches earlier this year, so there is some hope. OTOH, there doesn't > appear to be a lot of Alpine related activity so I wouldn't hold my > breath. I haven't spoken to him about what their plans are. >
I came across a page[1] listing all the architectures used in various Synology devices, including the Annapurna Labs Alpine variants. They have a link to a blog[2] which goes into detail about installing custom binaries on the device. The blog also has a link to a forum thread[3] on the topic. Does this provide enough detail for somebody to get into one of these devices and extract the information needed to prepare the necessary kernel patches? Is there any possibility of extracting the vendor's kernel from a Synology or QNAP device and putting it into a Debian root filesystem and using that to boot one of these devices? Regards, Daniel 1. http://www.synology-wiki.de/index.php/Welchen_Prozessortyp_besitzt_mein_System%3F 2. https://thingshardtofind.blogspot.com/2015/06/optware-ipkg-and-bootstrap-for-synology.html 3. https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=69860&start=60#p305182 4. https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2016/04/msg00044.html
