On Fri, 2020-03-27 at 14:57 +0100, Gilles Risch wrote: > On 26/03/2020 18:25, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 1:15 PM Gilles Risch < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > During these days of isolation I reanimated my old TeraStation > > > Live > > > (HS-DHTGL/R5), equipped it with some new disks and installed the > > > latest > > > official firmware (2.14). This firmware is based on a quiet old > > > Linux > > > kernel: > > > #uname -a > > > Linux TS-LIVE 2.6.16.16-arm1 #9 Fri Aug 31 13:42:57 JST 2007 > > > armv5tejl > > > unknown > > > > > > So I decided to look for something newer. Is it possible to > > > install and > > > run a recent version of Debian on this Marvell Orion based NAS? > > > > There is still minimal kernel support for this platform in the old > > board > > files (not in the .dts format), and the armel kernel enables > > support, but > > as far as I can tell, it only has 128MB of RAM, and the official > > minimum > > for a Debian installation is now 256MB, so this may be a rough > > ride. > > > > Using OpenWRT instead of Debian would better fit into the RAM, but > > they have removed support for all Marvell Orion5x based platforms > > a few months ago, making that also a bit hard, though depending on > > how motivated you are, you could add back OpenWRT support by > > creating a dts file for their "Kirkwood" port. > > > > Arnd > > > > Thanks, > > I'll have a look at OpenWRT.
Don't let RAM requirements put you off Debian. I run the latest Debian on a SheevaPlug (Kirkwood CPU), which whilst it does have 512MB RAM, 'free' reports 458MB availble. So that's 54MB used by the kernel, openssh daemon, exim4 email daemon, a bash shell, dnsmasq, chrony, fail2ban, and other odds and ends. Obviously, the more spare RAM for caches the better. -- Tixy
