On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:10:02AM -0600, Scott Edwards wrote: > According to some research I have done, this NAS runs a Marvel SoC > that's Arm9 based. It's already running Linux. According to some > other sources, this vendor is under litigation over busybox gplv2 > violations. It's not the only unit running on this chipset out there. > There appears to be two serial port headers, but I haven't had a > chance to look into it deeply yet.
I've got no specific knowledge of this hardware, but the MV88F5182 is what's in my D-Link DNS-323, so there shouldn't be much trouble getting Debian running on this thing (to at least a basic degree). I've pimped this a bunch of times before, so apologies if you've already seen it, but if you're interested in doing a Debian port (specifically d-i) to this hardware, take a look at the guide I wrote about my experiences porting d-i to the DNS-323: http://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/general/porting_d-i_to_the_dns_323.html That might ease the learning curve a bit if you decide to dig into it. All things considered, it wasn't as hard as I was expecting, and it was a great experience. I'd do it again if I needed another NAS. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
