Debian Weekly News - December 13th, 2005

"New Features on buildd.net. Ingo Jürgensmann announced the inclusion of armeb, hurd-i386, kfreebsd-i386 and m32r on buildd.net. Other features include estimations of package building times on various architectures, more statistics, links to package information and bugs, and an overview about currently built packages for those buildd that support this site."

source : http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2005/50/index

link : http://unstable.buildd.net/index-armeb.html

Hardware:

Comparison

Intel IXP* based

A slow but very cheap Networking chip from intel.

Linksys NSLU2

Iomega NAS100d

Intel IOP* based

Much faster than IXP4xx, but also more expensive and harder to find. Recently we have started the work with the following systems:

• Thecus N2100 this is a NAS device with a 600 MHz IOP chip, 2 SATA slots, expandable DDR RAM, 3 USB ports, 2 GBit Ethernet and mini-PCI. This device is also sold by Allnet as the ALL6500 and by Evesham as the SilverSTOR M-Box.
• IO-Data GLAN Tank: this is a NAS device with a 400 MHz IOP chip, 1 IDE slot, 128 MB RAM, 4 USB ports and 1 GBit Ethernet. Other devices from IO-Data, in particular the HDL-Gxxx, HDL-GWxxx, and HDL-GZxxx series, are very similar and will probably be supported too.

Other systems not yet worked on, We don't have scuh hardware ourself, and nobody having such hardware has approached us.

• Intel SS4000-E: based on a 400 MHz IOP CPU, this device has 4 SATA slots, 256 MB RAM (expandable), 2 USB ports, 1 mini-PCI slot and 1 GBit Ethernet. Apparently this machine is also known as the Intel Baxter Creek SS4000E. The LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID seems to be the same product.
• Thecus N4100: a device with 4 SATA slots, expandable RAM, 2 GBit Ethernet and mini PCI. This device is rebadged as the Allnet ALL6400 and Evesham SilverSTOR XS. Variation of N2100, so support should easy once we get uinits.
• Newisys NA-1400: based upon a 600 MHz IOP CPU, 256 MB DDR RAM (expandable), 4 hotswappable SATA slots, 2 USB ports and 2 Gbit Ethernet ports.
• Team asa servers: http://www.teamasa.com/npwr_server.shtml , http://www.teamasa.com/npwr_terra_server.shtml
• Iyonix PC is expensive, but as it based on 80321 we could work on it as well. http://www.iyonix.com/linux.html . Linux 2.4 kernel port exists.
• Thermaltake MUSE. NAS-RAID 80219 400MHZ, 4 x sata, 256MB of ram and built-in serial port. Looks like it is so NEW that it isn't on market yet. http://www.thermaltake.com/product/Storage/LANnRaid/N0001LN/n0001ln.asp
• Promise VTrak (733Mhz IOP), http://www.promise.com/product/segment_list.asp?segment=VTrak and probably many other uberexpensive storage systems.
• SATA/SCSI raid controllers. Just kidding - maybe ;). Anyway IOP is popular on "hardware" RAID controllers. LSI logic megaraid320-2E / DELL PERC4e, Intel® IOP332, 128MB ram, serial port accessible? Promise SuperTrak series: http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?segment=RAID%205%20HBAs&product_id=156 - 500hz IOP 333 & 128MB of RAM. Promise SuperTrak uses redboot and ecos, so why not Linux.

Broadcom based NAS systems

This is a mips-based platform, mostly used in access points. We are mostly interested in units with either USB connectors or other means to get a Hard Drive added.

linksys WRTSL54GS?

Maxtor Shared Storage?

x86 Single Board Computers

• Soekris Engineering
• PC Engines WRAP
• http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_wrap_board_microdrive
• http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/?p=21
• http://www.lxtreme.nl/index.pl/blog/1105205685

Gumstix

• http://gumstix.com/ - they have Intel XScale® PXA255 - where does that fit in?