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So as everyone in the beagleboard world has probably seen, ARM & Canonical have gotten together to bring the full Ubuntu Desktop OS to the ARMv7. (Hopefully they recognize Mojo-Handhelds excellent work…) Today I happened to noticed an early post by ogra on installing Ubuntu on the Omap35x. He provides an early root file system and an upstream lo kernel uImage.  Since it’s still very early, (just base level packages are built) I won’t provide complete instructions quite yet. (but for those that want to dig in and play, here’s a hint, SD-Card+deboostrap:repo:http://ports.ubuntu.com/jaunty/+QEMU )

As always kernel builds (along with a kernel deb for Jaunty in a few hours) based off of the Angstrom’s team excellent work are located here:
http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/kernel/

and Changelog:
http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/kernel/changes.txt
(edit: it’s probably useful for this to link to the valid file..)

So, I’m heading to Texas for another training, Grand Forks Airport is starting to feel like home… (Keil Software) However the flight is delayed due to rain or snow in msp. 

On the Beagleboard front, I noticed the Mojo Handheld guys had an icy-armv5el folder on their http server this morning, so i quickly setup a chroot on the beagle build server and built the standard kernel deb’s.  It’s untested, but considering much of icy release is based on future (lenny&sid)+armel (gcc-4.3.2) things should run very smoothly.

Uploads are here as always: http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/icy/v2.6.27-2a3408b-oer4/

can’t wait for the icy-armv7-a release!