vinibali

Hi there! I got a QNAP TS-228A with RTD1295 and 1GB of memory. I was playing around with the mainline kernel and trying to figure out the correct DTS for this NAS. I managed to boot up my with one working USB from the back, everything looks fine but I feel like the CPU is running with low frequency. The logs clearly shows that the boot is very slow, it takes long minutes for SystemD to start up it's services. The setup is one USB drive with Arch Linux rootfs tarball with custom compiled kernel with options like CONFIG_ARCH_REALTEK or CONFIG_F2FS_FS_ZSTD. Unfortunately Arch's kernel misses this target. Is it worth to spend more time with this device? Were any of us able to setup the Gbit ethernet and SATA interfaces? I can see there are many related repo's with usable dts or drivers. I think most of the driver are available we just need to adjust the device tree according to that. I saw the SMP implementation is also somewhat problematic with the spin table, psci solution. [ 19.016897] VFS: Mounted root (f2fs filesystem) readonly on device 8:2. [ 19.027405] devtmpfs: mounted [ 19.032713] Freeing unused kernel memory: 3264K [ 19.037576] Run /sbin/init as init process [ 19.528716] systemd[1]: System time advanced to built-in epoch: Wed 2026-01-07 19:31:44 UTC [ 80.887403] systemd[1]: systemd 259-2-arch running in system mode (+PAM +AUDIT -SELINUX +APPARMOR -IMA +IPE +SMACK +SECCOMP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +OPENSSL +ACL +BLKID +CURL +E) [ 80.921626] systemd[1]: Detected architecture arm64. [ 111.625814] systemd[1]: Initializing machine ID from random generator. [ 111.632867] systemd[1]: Installed transient '/etc/machine-id' file. [ 111.641073] systemd[1]: Hostname set to <alarm>. [ 142.877742] systemd[1]: bpf-restrict-fs: BPF LSM hook not enabled in the kernel, BPF LSM not supported. [ 176.038563] systemd[1]: Queued start job for default target Graphical Interface. [ 177.884307] systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/dirmngr. [ 209.925527] systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/getty. [ 240.645593] systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/gpg-agent. [ 271.365518] systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/gpg-agent-browser. [ 302.085600] systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/gpg-agent-extra. [ 332.805493] systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/gpg-agent-ssh. [ 363.525552] systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/keyboxd. [ 394.245551] systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/modprobe. [ 424.965578] systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/serial-getty. [ 455.684357] systemd[1]: Created slice User and Session Slice. [ 486.391860] systemd[1]: Started Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch. [ 517.111666] systemd[1]: Started Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch. [ 547.831552] systemd[1]: Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathExists=/proc/sys/fs/b. [ 547.848314] systemd[1]: Expecting device /dev/ttyS0... [ 578.551439] systemd[1]: Reached target Local Encrypted Volumes. [ 609.271487] systemd[1]: Reached target Image Downloads. [ 639.991487] systemd[1]: Reached target Local Integrity Protected Volumes. [ 670.711612] systemd[1]: Reached target Path Units. [ 701.431485] systemd[1]: Reached target Remote File Systems. [ 732.151447] systemd[1]: Reached target Slice Units. [ 762.871556] systemd[1]: Reached target Swaps. [ 793.591527] systemd[1]: Reached target Local Verity Protected Volumes. [ 824.311963] systemd[1]: Listening on Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs. [ 855.041446] systemd[1]: Listening on Query the User Interactively for a Password. [ 885.761590] systemd[1]: Listening on Process Core Dump Socket. [ 916.477769] systemd[1]: Listening on Credential Encryption/Decryption. [ 947.201487] systemd[1]: Listening on Factory Reset Management. [ 977.912008] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket (/dev/log). [ 1008.631975] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Sockets. [ 1039.361885] systemd[1]: Listening on Console Output Muting Service Socket.