Re: QNAP TS-421 Kernel and Memory Size
On 15/02/14 00:01, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 02/13/2014 07:26 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 10:48, Gordan Bobic gor...@bobich.net wrote: Is there a better kernel to use? I suppose I could use the stock kernel with a custom initrd, and hope qcontrol still works. Does current 3.12 work? Where can I get the package from? Apologies if if this is a stupid question, I normally spend most of my time in rpm land so I'm not quite up to speed with the debian way of doing things and package sources. 3.12 is the current kernel in the Debian testing or jessie tree, I have a kirkwood and sunxi based system both running jessie with very few problems. I personally just upgraded both my arm systems to jessie as they are tinkering systems rather than anything I actually use. I have used the method given in this answer on a number of systems I care more about (home file server and firewall). http://serverfault.com/a/382101 -- Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ff5e3c.8070...@night-shade.org.uk
Re: QNAP TS-421 Kernel and Memory Size
I was rather hoping for a response more along the lines of here's a download link for the specific .deb you need for the TS-421. Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk wrote: On 15/02/14 00:01, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 02/13/2014 07:26 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 10:48, Gordan Bobic gor...@bobich.net wrote: Is there a better kernel to use? I suppose I could use the stock kernel with a custom initrd, and hope qcontrol still works. Does current 3.12 work? Where can I get the package from? Apologies if if this is a stupid question, I normally spend most of my time in rpm land so I'm not quite up to speed with the debian way of doing things and package sources. 3.12 is the current kernel in the Debian testing or jessie tree, I have a kirkwood and sunxi based system both running jessie with very few problems. I personally just upgraded both my arm systems to jessie as they are tinkering systems rather than anything I actually use. I have used the method given in this answer on a number of systems I care more about (home file server and firewall). http://serverfault.com/a/382101 -- Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk
Re: QNAP TS-421 Kernel and Memory Size
On 02/13/2014 07:26 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 13 Feb 2014, at 10:48, Gordan Bobic gor...@bobich.net wrote: It looks like there is a bug in kernel 3.2.0-4-kirkwood WRT how it handles the memory on QNAP TS-421. The stock kernel shows the full 1GB of RAM, the Debian kernel shows 880488KB. Also in dmesg: Truncating RAM at 2000-3fff to -367f (vmalloc region overlap). ... Memory: 872MB = 872MB total Memory: 871128k/871128k available, 21800k reserved, 0K highmem Virtual kernel memory layout: vector : 0x - 0x1000 ( 4 kB) fixmap : 0xfff0 - 0xfffe ( 896 kB) vmalloc : 0xf700 - 0xfe80 ( 120 MB) lowmem : 0xc000 - 0xf680 ( 872 MB) modules : 0xbf00 - 0xc000 ( 16 MB) .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc03e757c (3966 kB) .init : 0xc03e8000 - 0xc040c000 ( 144 kB) .data : 0xc040c000 - 0xc0446820 ( 235 kB) .bss : 0xc0446844 - 0xc04a9ed8 ( 398 kB) Is there a better kernel to use? I suppose I could use the stock kernel with a custom initrd, and hope qcontrol still works. Does current 3.12 work? Where can I get the package from? Apologies if if this is a stupid question, I normally spend most of my time in rpm land so I'm not quite up to speed with the debian way of doing things and package sources. Gordan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52feae4f.5020...@bobich.net
Re: QNAP TS-421 Kernel and Memory Size
On 13 Feb 2014, at 10:48, Gordan Bobic gor...@bobich.net wrote: It looks like there is a bug in kernel 3.2.0-4-kirkwood WRT how it handles the memory on QNAP TS-421. The stock kernel shows the full 1GB of RAM, the Debian kernel shows 880488KB. Also in dmesg: Truncating RAM at 2000-3fff to -367f (vmalloc region overlap). ... Memory: 872MB = 872MB total Memory: 871128k/871128k available, 21800k reserved, 0K highmem Virtual kernel memory layout: vector : 0x - 0x1000 ( 4 kB) fixmap : 0xfff0 - 0xfffe ( 896 kB) vmalloc : 0xf700 - 0xfe80 ( 120 MB) lowmem : 0xc000 - 0xf680 ( 872 MB) modules : 0xbf00 - 0xc000 ( 16 MB) .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc03e757c (3966 kB) .init : 0xc03e8000 - 0xc040c000 ( 144 kB) .data : 0xc040c000 - 0xc0446820 ( 235 kB) .bss : 0xc0446844 - 0xc04a9ed8 ( 398 kB) Is there a better kernel to use? I suppose I could use the stock kernel with a custom initrd, and hope qcontrol still works. Does current 3.12 work? -- Sent from a mobile device Tim Fletcher -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/109f756b-76cf-4b2c-9467-1235600a1...@night-shade.org.uk
