Thanks Guillaume and Matthias. It looks very promising. I am going to order a kit for myself and I will give it a try to build and test openSUSE for that board. If it works nicely and as I intend to replace my current NAS with it, I'll be interested to maintain an image for it.
rgds Paul On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Guillaume Gardet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Le 26/07/2018 à 10:43, Matthias Brugger a écrit : >> >> Hi Paul, >> >> On 26/07/18 10:07, Paul Gonin wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> This arm based NAS kit is interesting. >>> https://kobol.io/helios4/ >>> >>> What would be the level of difficulty to have openSUSE (pref. Leap) >>> available for it ? >>> >> >From a quick look mainline kernel support for the armada-388 looks fine. >> You >> would need to get the device tree file for the specific board upstream, >> but that >> shouldn't be too difficult. >> >> Next step would be to check if there is support in mainline u-boot of the >> board >> and if not, enable it. Another option would be to create a contrib project >> with >> the BSP u-boot, but it should have support for EFI and distro boot. There >> might >> be some work needed here. > > > No work, all is here: board support _with_ EFI: > http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=configs/helios4_defconfig > > Sounds good for this board. :) > > Guillaume > > >> >> With that you should be able to get support for openSUSE Tumbleweed. >> >> To get support for openSUSE Leap, you would need to create a feature >> request in >> fate.opensuse.org against "openSUSE Distribution" (I suppose), best with >> the >> upstream commit Id's you will need to get the kernel working. >> >> You can see, it's a rather long process, but hey, would be great to see >> you on >> board pushing this forward! >> >> Regards, >> Matthias > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
