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Marvell released Datasheets / Functional Erratas / User Manuals which describe the 88F5182 (“Feroceon SoC for Networking Storage”) and the 88F5181 (“Feroceon SoC for High Performance Networking”) ARM SoC`s (former known as Marvell Orion ARM SoC`s) in great detail. Another nice move from Marvell after managing to get support for this SoC`s into the mainline kernel.

Thanks to HwGuru, Rambo and LordScaffard, you can now unbrick an MRT GigaNAS using JTAG. Read this article for more information!

An experimental Debian installer release(s) for QNAP TS-x09 series is available now – see this Debian mailing list for more information!

Debian GNU/Linux is a community made (since 1993) operating system plus thousands of high quality packages to use with it. It can be used to replace the whole software on a NAS device.

Note: These releases are currently very experimental and require soldering (for serial port) at the moment. You can find the files for TS-109 & TS-209 here and TS-409 here. Official Debian installer beta3 will be the first release targeted at end users.

foonas-em 0.1.0-r2 has been released bringing many new features and support for various new platforms. With this move comes a migration from glibc to uclibc to free up space for new features which include JFS, USB storage, Busybox 1.10.1, partial German and Spanish localisations and VFAT support for all platforms.

We are pleased to announce support for various Marvell Orion based devices following the support for these platforms added into Linux 2.6.25 and include 2.6.25.1 in this release for the following Orion based machines:

• Kurobox Pro
• Buffalo Linkstation Pro (and variants)
• QNAP TS-209

Visit the foonas wiki for more information on the features for your platform, installation information and download details. Thanks to everyone involved in this release!