Archive for October, 2009

SheevaPlug Kernel and Gentoo binhost

Posted by mark on October 23, 2009 under Technology

geschenkboxYesterday I have played around with GIT and

  • merged the Linux kernel tree from Linus Torvalds
  • with the Orion sources from Marvell (i.e. patches for SheevaPlug and OpenRD)
  • added the Gentoo patches (distribution independent)
  • and those for USB displays and SDHC cards
  • and eliminated some harmless, but annoying warnings on ARM.

As I found the configurations of the other kernels for the SheevaPlug on the net a bit unfortunate, you can download my latest kernel flavour here: Read more »

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my BeQuiet power supply died

Posted by mark on October 3, 2009 under Private Observations

Yesterday I’ve switched my workstation off. Happily, I must add, as all the data from a former webserver has been successfully transferred to my SheevaPlug. In a minute or two, after something to eat, I wanted to commit that modified paper of mine – but nada! The PSU has died. Again (the last time was last December). So I currently have only my headless miniature server, a PDA and four harddrives along with a RAID card and my notebook, in which the former don’t fit in.

In case you didn’t know, today is German Unification Day and no store has opened. Great.
And yes, I have backups. And spare parts, but no additional PSU.