Re: DS-101 firmware

> svdberghwrote:

> [...]
> Furthermore, Synology's new DS-101g+ seems very related to the
DS-101 standard version and has a webserver built in... I wonder if
the DS-101 can be pursuaded to accept the firmware of the newer
model...
> [...]
>

Not at all! DS-101 is Intel ixp420 based, while DS-101g+ is Freescale
MPC8241 based, i.e. the first is ARM and the second PowerPC.
Interesting is that firmware for download available for DS-101 already
does have some bits related to PowerPC. For example you see there
loading of proprietary Intel ethernet driver in case of Arm and
loading of Marvel Yukon driver in case of PPC.
Also DS-101 seems to use RedBoot, so I would really expect this to be
very similar to reference intel ixdp42x design. BTW: I have very
similar toy here in excelent and _cheap_ Linksys NSLU2. I would
expect to be very similar, except software...

I'm also looking forward to seeing more information about 101g+, since
I'd like to get some "evaluation board" for PowerPC here, and using
some NAS and a bit hack it seems to be the most cheap solution --
I've already did the same for Arm/XScale and bought NSLU2.

Cheers,
Karel

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