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On 12/04/16 14:15, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > On 04/12/2016 10:20 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> How many can be upgraded to Debian and operated with 100% free >> software, no binary firmware blobs at all? Is there any >> comparison table that is useful for people buying these things >> with the intention of running free software? > > I have a Netgear ReadyNAS 104 here that runs Debian. The only part > that I didn't replace is the bootloader. Mine has an ancient > U-Boot, but there might be newer revisions that are already dt > aware. Minimal support for that machine is supported by barebox, > but I didn't dare to replace U-Boot yet (because I have problems > booting via UART). > > The NAS is driven by an Marvell Armada 370 SoC and up to now you > need a binary blob to initialize RAM. > > IMHO the not-so-nice thing with commercially available NAS boxes is > that they are all a bit short on RAM. Mine has 512 MiB. > Yes, I had noticed that, apart from the Synology DS2015xs Are many of them user-upgradeable though? > Something I was surprised at is that scp is quite noticeable slower > than unencrypted transfers. > Using the factory OS or with Debian? Did you see any clue about the bottleneck, e.g. does CPU usage peak? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXDP63AAoJEGxlgOd711bERo0QANWQeljpiNpauNJnb6wKqDG4 fOlaqgxS7tIT1WeBlfzHPUjWQmET6ucQ0fO9tRiecVWSn87uuYRJIkyzmDb9F0ZO O+MIfldTPvCRg/dIRh3vz3sHSINDnkExoN9SBy3Gk9XtzQ/y6j86+oMGaCIZBFNs QFtyhfoXyt1n7DN7dKkGJlQJZUefeoRT9tBU7gMzpquV5a/xexa9ksRyxhx0QUaU 9DQJ6FeQnl/dCvf5hLMT4YueDyn7tLVVqk3I/mjWAPT5cnOctVswQxexXW9ZIReY 6qU9kIeg1JkOFFIO7VXW7SsNiY2hNr6XB7AW46Muqr19Gj+U8tJAdtNy+/vo0nkN bmqF2uf/EgBa4Ys9GnPf5a6jcuY3vBW5ciUpFaWSjWIk2BPFu1hdQFLu3Vby1gdc bmDCP9cSych/PJWMYa4iiQxGqsPxeJMwjLwmVY6tVCMiJmcL9RAz0bcQfha38gkM GXA6EqhQWXKOYvz2L87GX5yeLKO9vWE0ng+a4F4BE92Ec2yDdl1W63ns83Gpy/37 eTa57O94ee/jCqln2303ly34DIxfymwCh8AghvJ+hIxuSXH6Cxfhvp3uUHpSlm+0 GAE8X0RT4EpWLxhAAUv/Av03KGyVRwiLgUbgZuChIb4LrjzMjV+a7iuiDxumSDoZ cSSN8umeEO0EILea/ITA =Q0Bu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
