Re: OpenBSD on Synology Disk Station ?

[Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:33:03 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Joel CARNAT" <joel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The Synology DS-106 (IDE disk version) and DS-107 (SATA disk
> version) seem to run a powerpc CPU.
> 
> The firmware name is quite explicit: synology_powerpc_106j_0518.zip.
> And according to some forum, the internal Linux says:
> NAS> cat /proc/cpuinfo
> cpu : 82xx
> revision : 16.20 (pvr 8081 1014)
> bogomips : 132.30
> vendor : Motorola
> machine : MPC8241
> processor : PVID: 0x80811014, vendor: Motorola
> 
> It seems to be confirmed here http://www.kik-it.com/monitor/
> 
> Has anyone ever installed OpenBSD on one of those ?

The answer to that question is almost certainly no.

However, it should be possible to make OpenBSD/socppc run on this box,
especially if it uses uboot as its bootloader.  This will probably
involve changing some of the early kernel initialization code and
adding one or two new drivers.