The Orion family of SoCs includes the following machines:

• Buffalo/Revolution Kurbox Pro
• Buffalo/Revolution Linkstation Mini
• Buffalo/Revolution Terastation Pro II/Live
• Lacie ED Mini V2
• Lacie Internet Space V1 (V2 uses kirkwood)
• Lacie 2Big
• Lacie 5Big
• Lacie d2 Network
• Lacie Big Disk Network
• Marvell Orion-2 Development Board, Marvell Orion-VoIP FXO, Marvell Orion-VoIP GE, Marvell Orion-NAS Reference Design, Marvell Orion-1-90 AP GE Reference Design
• Maxtor Shared Storage II
• QNAP TS-109/TS-209
• QNAP TS-409
• Technologic Systems TS-78xx

This repo provides two branches:

• master is kept up-to-date by merging the master branches of custodian repo that have orion5x-related commits.
• testing is master plus patches that have not yet made it into any custodian's u-boot repo.

WARNING: testing is volatile: it may roll back on a patch that eventually proved bad, or move sideways from one version of a patch to another. Its history will be shaky. Hey, this is a testing branch. On the other hand, master will only be a merge of custodian trees, so you can reasonably expect it to contain commits that will end up in mainline u-boot.

This section present step by step how to update the stock U-Boot with a mainline version. Both a serial or a network console can be used to connect to U-Boot. For this how-to, the netconsole way is preferred because the user don't have to build/buy a serial cable.

• Run clunc and connect to the LaCie U-Boot console.

$ ./clunc -i <NAS_IP>

• Setup a tftp server and install the new u-boot image in the tftp directory (could be /var/tftpboot).

$ wget ftp://ftp.lacie-nas.org/u-boot/u-boot-netspace_v2.kwb -O /var/tftpboot/u-boot-netspace_v2.kwb

• Configure some U-Boot network environment variables. In the following example, replace ${serverip} with the tftp server IP address and replace ${ipaddr} with a valid and free IP address.

Marvell>> setenv ipaddr ${ipaddr}; setenv serverip ${serverip}

• Flash the new U-Boot image.

Marvell>> bubt u-boot-netspace_v2.kwb
Using egiga0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.0.13; our IP address is 192.168.0.17
Filename 'u-boot-new.kwb'.
Load address: 0x2000000
Loading: ##########################################
done
Bytes transferred = 214220 (344cc hex)
Un-Protect Flash Monitor space

**Warning**
If U-Boot Endiannes is going to change (LE->BE or BE->LE), Then Env parameters should be overriden..
Override Env parameters? (y/n) n
Erase 0 - 125 sectors...
.................................................................
.............................................................
Copy to Flash... done
Protect Flash Monitor space

• Restart.

Marvell>> reset

• Install the U-Boot netconsole tool.

Note that U-Boot mainline don't provide a magic packet mechanism to configure the IP address. It means that clunc becomes useless from this point. The netconsole configuration rely on some environment variables: ipaddr, ncip, stdin, stdout and stderr (for more information, please refer to the file README.NetConsole included in U-Boot sources). After the update, this variables will be initialized with the default (or built-in) values: the IP address is 192.168.1.111 and the netconsole is configured to broadcast messages. As a consequence, the server IP must belong to the subnetwork 192.168.1.0. Moreover netcat don't handle the broadcast messages. Instead, the U-Boot tools netconsole and ncb must be used.

• Connect to U-Boot via netconsole and interrupt boot process (Ctrl-C).

$ ./tools/netconsole 192.168.1.111

U-Boot 2010.12-00216-g5bbbf69 (Jan 24 2011 - 21:38:00) LaCie Network Space v2

SoC:   Kirkwood 88F6281_A0
DRAM:  256 MiB
SF: Detected MX25L4005A with page size 256, total 512 KiB
SF: disable write protection
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   egiga0
88E1116 Initialized on egiga0
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  3
ns2>

• 88F5182 Functional Errata
• 88F5182 Datasheet
• 88F5182 User Manual