Update on QNAP TS-119/TS-219 kernel support
I mentioned a few weeks ago that initial kernel support for the QNAP
TS-119 and TS-219 Turbo NAS got accepted for 2.6.30 but that there were
some
issues left. Here's an update:
- SATA: Kirkwood uses a different SATA PHY and the Orion settings
weren't quite right, leading to the timeouts I saw. As it turns out,
Saeed Bishara from Marvell had a patch for this already and it will be
in 2.6.30-rc6.
- Flash: writing to flash is now possible thanks to a patch from Peter
Horton that has been merged into 2.6.30-rc5.
- Parsing the MAC address: Thomas Reitmayr created a patch to parse
the MAC address from flash but the kernel people thought this should be
done in userspace. I haven't looked into this yet... maybe the best
solution is to document that the MAC address will change.
- SATA lights: Thomas Reitmayr created a patch to fix this issue.
The SATA and flash fixes are already in our 2.6.29 kernel.