On 26/03/2020 18:25, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 1:15 PM Gilles Risch <gilles.ri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> During these days of isolation I reanimated my old TeraStation Live >> (HS-DHTGL/R5), equipped it with some new disks and installed the latest >> official firmware (2.14). This firmware is based on a quiet old Linux >> kernel: >> #uname -a >> Linux TS-LIVE 2.6.16.16-arm1 #9 Fri Aug 31 13:42:57 JST 2007 armv5tejl >> unknown >> >> So I decided to look for something newer. Is it possible to install and >> run a recent version of Debian on this Marvell Orion based NAS? > > There is still minimal kernel support for this platform in the old board > files (not in the .dts format), and the armel kernel enables support, but > as far as I can tell, it only has 128MB of RAM, and the official minimum > for a Debian installation is now 256MB, so this may be a rough ride. > > Using OpenWRT instead of Debian would better fit into the RAM, but > they have removed support for all Marvell Orion5x based platforms > a few months ago, making that also a bit hard, though depending on > how motivated you are, you could add back OpenWRT support by > creating a dts file for their "Kirkwood" port. > > Arnd >
Thanks, I'll have a look at OpenWRT. Regards, Gilles
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