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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!

Well it took a couple more tweaks/fixes, but I now have a working script for auto building the BeagleBoard’s kernel deb package. (linux-image, linux-headers, and uImage). Update packages will be available here: http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/lenny/ 

Script: Basicly, add patches to svn with patch order, update revision number, along with kernel git revision and run the script.  A patch diff & kernel source tar are generated on the file server.  Later an hourly run crontab job on the BeagleBoard detects this update, builds the target files and uploads them.  (Sure, some of these steps could also be done on the BeagleBoard, but with limited resources, wear leveling, etc (2GB/4GB SD cards) a file server works better.)

Since things are working, time to add features of course…

Goal: Add autobuild capabilties for Mojo Handhelds ubuntu port.  Using the same kernel version, just different build enviroments..

Idea #1: BeagleBoard running Debian Lenny, with NFS mount containing Lenny, Sid, Frisky-armv5el, etc chroot’s.
Con: NFS mount’s are rumored to be slow when building kernel’s.
Pro: NFS mount already setup on the fileserver, same script should also work for Idea #2

Idea #2: Idea #1, except with a usb<->pata drive.
Con: BeagleBoard is currently on the other side of the world, i fly home on saturday…

So we just got into Trondheim, here’s a couple pics while i go get more..

Sadly it just started raining but i got a couple off:

Hotel:

Port:

Didn’t I just do this a month or two ago?  Well anyways i’m in Amsterdam again, so early in the morning the sun still hasn’t come up.  I left Grand Forks about 11:00am saturday, had a good flight to msp and then another good one to Amsterdam.  My flight leaves for Trondheim Norway in a couple hours, (for those at home it’s 2:30 am Sunday and the sun’s finaly coming up.. so no sleep for me..)… We are staying at the SAS Radison downtown on the water front, so i should get some nice pictures… (sunrise is 7am/sunset is 7pm this time of year..)

On the beagleboard front (since i never post anything): I now have a beagleboard online autobuilding debian ‘lenny’ kernel packages, infact i just pushed an updated kernel config from the Amsterdam airport.   Now just to add an nfs mount and have it build mojo kernel packages too…

Couple hours to go, we need to be at the airport by 4:30am, for our return flight to Amsterdam, hopefully if everything works out, we should hit grand forks by 4pm Central. Had an excellent dinner at the La Passage, another night of great food, great wine and great company… Dessert was chocolate so rich, well nothing else compares!!! Wondering if the block of cheese will make it, no ice at the hotel.. have to eat it Saturday, along with some wine!

Spent sometime exploring Aix again, picked up 1kg of cheese! Had to run back to the hotel to stick it in the fridge, need to find some wine and french cookbook now…

On Wednesday night, Atmel brought us to Cassis for a French Experience. Google Maps, Cassis France The sign entering Cassis, explains the town very well.. “Rock, Sea, and Wine” (in french).. The town is on the edge of the sea surrounded by high mountain passes. Along the passes are a whole bunch of winary’s. They brought us down to the ocean, and we all got on a yaught, to explore the ocean front (rocks) (and drink wine) along the mediterranean. After a couple hours, sundown we had dinner at the “Le Grand Large” a restaurant on the beach. Had some more wine, and a very good dinner, the first course was something i’d call biskets and gravy (but it was fish), the main course was fish, and desert was a really great tasting ice cream like substance…

Well today I actually have to work.. The bus is picking us up at 8:15am to head to Atmel’s Design Center.

So a good friend from Atmel arrived, we then headed out to a restaurant recommended by her taxi driver. Had a very nice soup, then a meat course(not sure what it was) and a crumble apple pie for desert, not sure how we will do the expense report for the wine.. But i have some awesome pics of the food.. Joked around with the waiter for most of the night, then had a drink called ‘water of life’.. (44 proof, yummy)

For dinner, we found this open area in the streets, the whole square was filled with little outdoor restaurants 15ft wide by 45ft long. Had a delicious Alpina bruschetta and of course Creme Brulee for desert. (and took a bunch more pictures) Little tanned, but put a lot of miles walking on.