Hi,
I have executed following steps to download and compile rowboat-android for TI81xx. My Ubuntu version is 11.10.
mkdir ~/bin
PATH=~/bin:$PATH
curl https://android.git.kernel.org/repo > ~/bin/repo
chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
mkdir ~/rowboat-android
cd ~/rowboat-android
repo init -u git://gitorious.org/rowboat/manifest.git -m rowboat-gingerbread-ti81xx-mc-dsp.xml
repo sync
cd ~/rowboat-android/hardware/ti/ti81xx
./install_mc_dsp_components.sh
Anupama