After patches from Petter, add foreign architecture support and picking up some scripting from freedombox, I've just built a Debian unstable image using the ARMMP kernel on Beaglebone-black.

A few changes to vmdebootstrap will need to go into the next version (0.3), including an example customise script to setup …

I've done various bits with ARMMP and LAVA on this blog already, usually waiting until I've got all the issues ironed out before writing it up. However, this time I'm just going to do a dump of where it's at, how it works and what can be done.

I'm aware …

lava-server has arrived in Debian unstable. No need for third party repositories (unless you want to), a simple apt install lava-server. What happens from that point isn't so simple. I've made the single instance installation as straightforward as I could but there is a lot more to do to get …

The home lab is my LAVA development environment and I've recently got two iMX53 Quick Start Boards working with a typical LAVA master image based on a Linaro build of Linux 3.1.0 for mx5 with a Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 rootfs:

3.1.0-1002-linaro-lt-mx5 (buildd@hubbard) (gcc …

The iMX53 Quick Start Board has been a mainstay of the Debian armhf port and has been part of LAVA until recently. It's a natural choice for seeing how LAVA and Debian can work together more closely. So, in the first steps to getting my home lab running, I set …

The uses of this particular rack I'll cover in future entries - this is about how I made the rack itself, with help from friends (Steve McIntyre & Andy Simpkins). A common theme is making allowances for using dev kit boards - ready-to-rack ARM servers are not here yet. My aim was to …