On September 14, 2015 12:45:03 PM GMT+02:00, JM <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> >wrote: >> >> Summary: if people care about armel for Stretch, they should make >> noise NOW and convince people it's needed and can/should be supported >> in future. >> > >I'm running Debian on QNAP TS-212P that was purchased new three months >ago. I recommended one to a friend who's been looking for a cheap >commodity NAS just the other week. > >I think Debian provides a very valuable service here - it enables >people to easily replace the typical proprietary NAS software (often >with ancient kernels, huge attack surface, spotty security updates and >uncertain life cycles) with a Free alternative that gives them control >over their own hardware. It also gives manufacturers incentive to keep >their hardware easy to hack on (SSH root access, enough flash, >soldered serial headers) as some people choose QNAP over e.g. Synology >just because they can easily put Debian on it -- with the Debian >Installer a careful individual doesn't even need serial access! > >The architecture may be a bit dated but it can still push a lot of >packets over a gigabit cable and it's far from being dead - the recent >DTB transition and 4.x kernels brought new features to kirkwood >(cpuidle driver, working cpufreq, thermal zone support), bugs are >being ironed out with upstream (coherency issue with syncbarriers a >while back, IO problems with mtdblock driver investigated currently) >and there is a brand-new rewrite of the crypto engine driver >(marvell-cesa) in kernel 4.2 that I am very eager to test as soon as >it hits unstable. > >There has been a lot of effort put into making Debian on QNAP work >well (kudos to Martin Michlmayr and Ian Campbell among others) and I >personally think it would be a huge waste to see it gone. > >Best regards, >Jan
+1 Running 2 QNAP devices as "servers" here. Having them supported would be a good thing -- Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse my brevity.
