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 ? thanks Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
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. 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: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
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
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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 <guillaume.gardet@free.fr> 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
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