As of June eighteenth, at 21:39 EDT 豆豆 is now Zoë Sigrid Heinicke. Both mother and child are doing fine, and I’m going to try to get some sleep. More detail to come within the next few days.
The last thing I did yesterday was complie the 2.6.6 I²C drivers in the 2.6.3 kernel. The first thing I did this morning was try the patch HighPoint sent me in between. It was a short modification to their code, and it works. Thanks HighPoint support and programmers.
Hopefully the fix will make it to HighPoint’s site soon. I would put the patch here, but I don’t thrust the copyright of it.
My I²C woes continued today. I have twelve SUPER X5DPA-GG systems with HighPoint RocketRAID 1820s. HighPoint provides an “OpenBuild”, currently v1.02, but this doesn’t build on Linux kernels above 2.6.3. I need I²C working because these machines are in a room with a history of AC problems. The SMBus devices on the SUPER X5DPA-GG don’t work with the I²C drivers from the 2.6.3 kernel, but with the 2.6.6 kernel do.
After I submitted a support request to HighPoint, I set of finding my own solution. I got lucky. I simply replaced the I2C directory in the 2.6.3 kernel source tree with the one from the 2.6.6 kernel. Reconfigure and rebuilt the kernel, and it works like a charm!
I hope HighPoint gets back with a new driver. Hopefully this time they will open source it and not just “OpenBuild” it. Whatever “OpenBuild” means. I might of tried to fix it myself if it was open source.
Every Memorial Day when it’s not too rainy a parade marches past my front door. This year, my parents, brother, close friend Chris Quanstrom and his fiancée stopped by. After the parade I served some Belgium waffles. I got a Belgium waffle press as a wedding gift, so whenever waffles are made in this house they are always of the Belgian variety.
To go with the waffles, I got some bacon from Ely Pork Products. I cooked them according to Alton Brown‘s Scrap Iron Chef’s Bacon
recipe. Well, to be precise, I only used the last paragraph of the recipe, the entire recipe makes bacon from scratch. The last paragraph says:
Place the strips of bacon onto a sheet pan fitted with a rack and place into a cold oven. Turn the oven to 400°F and cook for about 12 to 15 minutes, depending on how crispy you like your bacon. Remove from rack and drain on paper towels. Enjoy.
It worked out great! everybody loved them, I just didn’t get enough. So thank you Mr. Brown. Later this day I got a copy of your book I’m Just Here for the Food to give as a gift to somebody (I don’t think anybody reads my blog, so I’m not to worried about that person guessing it’s for him). I already have my own copy.
On Tuesday I got
Using Debian’s debootstrap package I installed an extra partition with on a separate server with Sarge. In order to use the lm-sensors detection I wanted a kernel that has the I²C configured as much like Debian’s shipped kernel as possible but also be NFS root bootable. I took the latest stable 2.6.x kernel from The Linux Kernel Archives, and the latest 2.6.y kernel configuration file from the latest configured Sarge package; x=6 and y=5 at the time I built them. I made sure CONFIG_ROOT_NFS, CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP was on, and the network card was staticly linked too. After building the kernel I installed the modules in the Sarge partition.
I configured an NFS server to export said made Sarge partition with no_root_squash on. Set up TFTP with PXE files. Then set up a DHCP server to boot that system via PXE. Remote booting the system went fine and the sensors-detect command mostly reported accurate information.
I build a kernel with our in-house specifications, included the discovered I²C packages. Now it gleefully reports the CPU temperatures. Even though it feels like I used a jack hammer to plant a daisy, it now works.
Since my Kernel build seems to be taking forever, here is what I’ve been up to. I’ve been trying to get
Working with the mixed system has been a pain in the butt, even though I followed §3.8 of the APT HOWTO I think I’m having package version issues. So I’m making a pure Sarge system just to boot via of them. It seems a bit overkill, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
While all my Promise RM8000s are fine, somebody else in the building started having problems with his. After two days of experiments by our lovely system administrators the current working theory is that it was plugged into a RAID SCSI device, and the RAID on RAID action seems to confuse it when use gets heavy. Its been getting use plugged into a normal SCSI card, and all seems to be functioning. My Promise RM8000s where always plugged into a non-RAID SCSI device.
A lot of things happened at work last week and I needed a drink. So, yesterday, on the way home I asked 余艾蕾 if she would like a Hong Kong martini when we get home. A Hong Kong martini is just a regular martini with a 甜話梅 in lieu of the traditional olive. She said she didn’t want something that strong, and I wanted something with dry vermouth. Consulting my copy of Cocktail: The Drinks Bible for the 21st Century I came across a good candidate. The vermouth cassis has 1½ ounces of dry vermouth and a ½ ounce of créme de cassis, stired with ice, strained into a chilled wine glass, and topped with soda water. While I didn’t have any créme de cassis in the house, I did have a half bottle of grand marnier. So I dub the drink the vermouth marnier, just like a vermouth cassis but with grand marnier instead of créme de cassis. 余艾蕾, who usually doesn’t like grand marnier, thought this was a good drink. I’ll try it out on my mother during tomorrows Eagles game.
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