On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 07:02:10PM -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > Mitch wrote on 10/11 > >This weekend I discovered a race condition in the OFW USB driver > >that might possibly be related to the problem you report. > > http://dev.laptop.org/~wmb/q2e46a.rom has a fix for the problem I found. > > My "weakest" XO-1 runs 'copy-nand' to completion with this rom, > whereas from other roms it very often gets "file read errors" (on > the file on that same USB stick) while performing 'copy-nand'. > > I've now adopted the procedure with that "weakest" XO-1 to first > flash q2e46a.rom; then use it to install whatever the new os__.img > is; then flash that XO-1 to another rom if I want to boot with that > other rom.
That's good news. Once 11.3.0 is released, I'd like to get this into an XO-1 OpenFirmware release, so it can be tested for the following release. (q2e48 avoided this fix so as to be conservative.) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
