Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-14 Thread Alexander Pohl
Hi, Is there hope to have support for Debian on Synology NAS boxes with Armada 370/XP processors added in the future? The new generation of Synology NAS boxes is almost entirely based on ARM Armada SoC's, so if Debian adds support for this platform it would be possible to install on many

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 15/05/2014 3:16 AM, Alexander Pohl wrote: Could you please elaborate on the reasons why Synology boxes are not yet supported by the Debian installer images and where the problems are to implement support in the future. I know this is the debian-arm list, but how about a suggestion for

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
Have you attempted an install? The new Debian buildds/porterboxen have Marvell Armada 370/XP CPUs and are running linux-image-3.13-1-armmp-lpae with minimal config differences to wheezy-backports. https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=abel Looking at your list and at the upstream Linux kernel

arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-14 Thread Wookey
The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. In the course of that 344 have failed to build, (see http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=arm64suite=sid

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-14 Thread peter green
Wookey wrote: The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. Cool, have you seen any news on when we might actually be able to buy the stuff (which afaict is a

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-14 Thread Wookey
+++ peter green [2014-05-15 03:29 +0100]: Wookey wrote: The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. Cool, have you seen any news on when we might actually be able to