SS4000E software
Standard software
The SS4000E comes default with IPSTORE proprietary NAS software. This software delivers:
- PROPRIETARY kernel module: virtual block device layer
- PROPRIETARY kernel module: nfs server
- PROPRIETARY kernel module: lots of other crap
The crapware that is delivered with it is f.i. not able to reboot without nfs clients knowing about it. It cannot do smart or any other stuff that is useful. So you are better of without it. Eh, besides: the standard software guarantees to deliver poor performance, while the hardware should be able to do better.
The following things seems to be contained in the software:
- PROPRIETARY kernel module: iscsi (not sure wether it's a client or a server, although it looks like a server)
- PROPRIETARY kernel module
Boot software
The SS4000E comes with RedBoot for the IQ31244, but without support for the e1000 ethernet controller. Instead, it has support for the e100 ethernet controller. This is the reason why RedBoot crashes when you want to do something with networking. RedBoot then prompts with a gdb-stub prompt (in other words: you then have to let gdb talk to the system).
Exploring the system: "install" debian
Once you get your prompt back, you can explore your system further by bootstrapping debian somewhere. Create an export on the system, mount it, and as root on the client:
cd <mountpoint> debootstrap --arch arm --foreign sarge debian-xscale/
On the server you can now:
chroot <mountpoint>/debian-xscale/
And voila: you are in your debian environment.
Getting the source code distribution to work:
