Debian Installation on Thecus N2350 (Marvell Armada 385)

Manuel,

> How did you get that information?

I have an alias that include all the following commands that I can run to get a summary of system info at a glance.

dmesg | grep -i machine | cut -c40-120
Thecus N2350

uname -a
Linux version 5.2.9-mvebu-tld-1 (root@tldDebianVM) (gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 19 12:47:39 PDT 2019

cat /etc/debian_version
Debian 10.0

cat /proc/cmdline
console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 mtdparts=pxa3xx_nand-0:-(ubifs);spi1.0:0x00400000(uboot),0x00010000@0x00100000(uboot_env),0x00010000@0x00300000(uboot_scr) earlyprintk=serial

fw_printenv uboot_version  # I usually set u-uboot_version env so I can tell from Debian which version I've installed)
uboot_version=U-Boot 2013.01 (Nov 12 2018 - 20:56:19) Marvell version: 2015_T1.0p18-tld-4

> I think it might be possible that i had the
> problem with random MAC addresses also before the
> upgrade, but i did not keep the customized hard
> coded MAC address in the config file, but chose
> the new one from the package maintainer - not sure
> about that.

I always have persistent MAC address on this Thecus N2350 box since we added the alias eth0 to the DTS!

So it is still a mystery why we have the same box, same kernel but the MAC address behavior is different :)

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> Manuel,
>

> dmesg | grep -i machine | cut -c40-120
> Thecus N2350
> 
> uname -a
> Linux version 5.2.9-mvebu-tld-1 (root@tldDebianVM)
> (gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu/Linaro
> 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 19
> 12:47:39 PDT 2019
> 
> cat /etc/debian_version
> Debian 10.0
> 
> cat /proc/cmdline
> console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs
> rootdelay=10
> mtdparts=pxa3xx_nand-0:-(ubifs);spi1.0:0x00400000(uboot),0x00010000@0x00100000(uboot_env),0x00010000@0x00300000(uboot_scr)
> earlyprintk=serial
> 
> fw_printenv uboot_version  # I usually set
> u-uboot_version env so I can tell from Debian
> which version I've installed)
> uboot_version=U-Boot 2013.01 (Nov 12 2018 -
> 20:56:19) Marvell version: 2015_T1.0p18-tld-4
>

Thecus N2350
Linux vega 5.2.9-mvebu-tld-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 19 12:47:39 PDT 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux
10.0
console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 mtdparts=pxa3xx_nand-0:-(ubifs);spi1.0:0x00400000(uboot),0x00010000@0x00100000(uboot_env),0x00010000@0x00300000(uboot_scr) earlyprintk=serial

> So it is still a mystery why we have the same box,
> same kernel but the MAC address behavior is
> different :)
Yap, weird. I have also no idea at the moment.

Hi Manuel,

I've finally have time to write this :)

https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,92234

Please take a look and try it if you would like to.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/26/2019 06:41AM by bodhi.

Great! I briefly looked over it, i hope some people will use it.
I have no time to test it. Also my box is in "production" use now for quite some time. Running great!

A heads up. I will release u-boot 2023.01 for this box pretty soon.

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