Re: Compiler optimization for Geode/Floating Point pipeline

2007-10-29 Thread Albert Cahalan
Edward Cherlin writes: > I don't know about the internals of current activities in Python, but > I know where you can find reams of array code in C, FORTRAN, and other > languages in 3D graphics libraries (4 x 4 matrix multiplication > especially), multimedia compression and decompression, cryptog

Re: Reporting bugs

2007-10-29 Thread Albert Cahalan
Bert Freudenberg writes: > I've had comments like this on some of my own reports. These are > usually not reproducable, strange things. Having to follow through > when this is far from my own area of expertise simply takes time I > can't effort. There indeed is "lack of interest on the part of the

Re: Compiler optimization for Geode/Floating Point pipeline

2007-10-29 Thread Adrian Chadd
(I'll stay lurking for the most part, I thought I'd just put in my 2c) On Mon, Oct 29, 2007, Rob Savoye wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:33:22PM -0700, Brian Carnes wrote: > > > What aspects of this issue/request for help are still open? I'll go take > > a look at the OLPC build system tonig

Re: OLPC News 2007-10-27

2007-10-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
In some Irish family and place names Kill means boy (Gilroy, Kilroy, MacGillivray, etc. E.g. Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Ruaidh 'son of the redhaired lad', similar to the name of the Scottish dance tune An Gillie Ruach, The Redhaired Boy). So "Killjoy" can be thought of as "fun for children", entirely

Re: is there space for Space for a joyride?

2007-10-29 Thread C. Scott Ananian
i believe we need an rpm, because space has dependencies and a daemon component. but, yes -- given the rpm there is definitely a desire to add it to joyride. --scott On 10/29/07, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > about 100kb. > > Pol > > Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > > Poly

Re: Compiler optimization for Geode/Floating Point pipeline

2007-10-29 Thread Rob Savoye
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:33:22PM -0700, Brian Carnes wrote: > What aspects of this issue/request for help are still open? I'll go take > a look at the OLPC build system tonight to see what is being used (late > versions of GCC do have some Geode -mtune/-march modes), but would love to > be hook

Re: Compiler optimization for Geode/Floating Point pipeline

2007-10-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
I don't know about the internals of current activities in Python, but I know where you can find reams of array code in C, FORTRAN, and other languages in 3D graphics libraries (4 x 4 matrix multiplication especially), multimedia compression and decompression, cryptography (particularly RSA exponent

Re: log-collect / log-send

2007-10-29 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On 10/29/07, Pascal Scheffers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've created a rough-cut log-collector, it's in d.l.o/git/project/log- > activity/log-collect.py > > For now, it just outputs some system info, tell me what's missing or > what would be interesting to include? My list from the whiteboard

Re: low-memory testing

2007-10-29 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:23:13PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Current OOM score: /proc/*/oom_score > Adjustment: /proc/*/oom_adj > > Adjustments run from -17 (never kill) to 15. > > Starting each activity with oom_adj=15 would > be a good start. I've just tried something like that, and it wo

Signed build 623

2007-10-29 Thread C. Scott Ananian
A signed image for build 623 is at: http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/signed-623/ for those of you testing with security enabled. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.lap

Re: Request for Screen Reader Project Hosting

2007-10-29 Thread Danny Clark
Done; the project is "screen-reader" in git - http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/screen-reader;a=summary BTW are you all on the accessability list? - http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility On 10/28/07, Hemant Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would request the development t

New build 623

2007-10-29 Thread Build Announcer Script
Build 623 ChangeLog Base OS: - kernel - 2.6.22 - 20071029.2.olpc.9ac5c83191d8b48 * additional jffs2 sanity checking to work around bugs in hard link breaking * a libertas patch to support having the wireless use less power (via beacon interval settings) * ano

New joyride build 157

2007-10-29 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build157/devel_jffs2/ < bootfw.i386 0:q2d02-0 > bootfw.i386 0:q2d03-0 -- This email was automatically generated Aggregated logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html ___ Devel mailing l

Announcing q2d03

2007-10-29 Thread Mitch Bradley
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2d03 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

i18n & L10n anomalies

2007-10-29 Thread Xavier Alvarez
People, Summary: L10n needs developers to push latest POT in d.l.o In our drive to get the L10n (Pootle) server running, we are faced with the situation where enough POs are out-of-line with their corresponding POT (as highlighted by Ed Trager). Below is a sample list of them (stats were

Compiler optimization for Geode/Floating Point pipeline

2007-10-29 Thread Brian Carnes
The developers page on the wiki (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program) mentions: "compiler optimization: if you are a compiler wizard, we understand that the Geode lacks a specific back end code scheduler, which limits performance, particularly FP performance. We'd love to see work go on i

New joyride build 155

2007-10-29 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build155/devel_jffs2/ < olpcrd.i386 0:0.33-0 > olpcrd.i386 0:0.34-0 < Measure-11.xo > Measure-12.xo < TamTamEdit-42.xo < TamTamJam-42.xo > TamTamEdit-43.xo > TamTamJam-43.xo < TamTamSynthLab-42.xo > TamTamSynthLab-43.xo -- This email was aut

Re: layer-2 ping?

2007-10-29 Thread scott
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > anyone has done/seen a layer-2 ping (from one MAC to the other directly) its called arping. from the debian package description: "Description: sends IP and/or ARP pings (to the MAC address) The arping utility sends ARP and/or ICMP req

layer-2 ping?

2007-10-29 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
anyone has done/seen a layer-2 ping (from one MAC to the other directly) Pol ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

log-collect / log-send

2007-10-29 Thread Pascal Scheffers
I've created a rough-cut log-collector, it's in d.l.o/git/project/log- activity/log-collect.py For now, it just outputs some system info, tell me what's missing or what would be interesting to include? I don't know yet how to list installed activities... would that be just `ls /usr/share/ac

Re: list of rouge packages

2007-10-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Oct 29, 2007, at 20:01 , John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > etoys > > This is in review at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi? > id=247984 > and > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=247983 > > Issue involves refusal to sign CLA which might be resolved via an > olpc-cla agreement. Solut

Re: is there space for Space for a joyride?

2007-10-29 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
about 100kb. Pol Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > > >> If there is still interest in the Space activity (layout of tree of >> neighbors according to distance) entering Joyride, do you need an .xo >> file or an .rpm? >> > > How big is the bundle? > > __

Re: is there space for Space for a joyride?

2007-10-29 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > If there is still interest in the Space activity (layout of tree of > neighbors according to distance) entering Joyride, do you need an .xo > file or an .rpm? How big is the bundle? -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ O

Re: New joyride build 153

2007-10-29 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Build Announcer Script wrote: > --- libabiword.i386 2.6.0.svn20071027-1 --- > - Updates for abiword 2.6 > - New upstream snapshot > --- libabiword-plugins.i386 2.6.0.svn20071027-1 --- > - Updates for abiword 2.6 > - New upstream snapshot > - Add the loadbindings plugin > --- pyabiword.i386 0.6.0.s

is there space for Space for a joyride?

2007-10-29 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
If there is still interest in the Space activity (layout of tree of neighbors according to distance) entering Joyride, do you need an .xo file or an .rpm? Pol ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Notify active event firing

2007-10-29 Thread Arjun Sarwal
Say I have Activity A and I then go to Home View and open Activity B. At which point of opening of Activity B, does Activity A get to know that it is a background activity (inactive Activity) ? Is it immediately upon clicking the icon of Activity B ? thanks, Arjun -- Arjun Sarwal <[EMAIL PROTECT

New joyride build 153

2007-10-29 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build153/devel_jffs2/ > aspell-en.i386 50:6.0-7.fc7 > aspell.i386 12:0.60.5-3.fc7 > binutils.i386 0:2.17.50.0.12-4 > enchant.i386 1:1.3.0-1.fc6 > fribidi.i386 0:0.10.7-6.fc7 > libabiword.i386 0:2.6.0.svn20071027-1 > libabiword-plugins.i386 0:2.

Re: Music on the XO

2007-10-29 Thread Seth Woodworth
Slightly off of the conversational thread here but: Information on the specific output spectrum capabilities might improve transcoding of audio files into smaller file sizes. If there is no, or poor quality, auditory response below or above a given threshold, it might be worth snipping off various

Re: list of rouge packages

2007-10-29 Thread John (J5) Palmieri
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 20:23 +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On 10/29/07, John (J5) Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Avahi > > > > smcv is ontop of this > > > > owner: dcbw (Dan Williams) > > > > tmprepo: > > > > avahi-0.6.20-5.fc7.i386.rpm > > avahi-autoipd-0.6.20-5.fc7.i386.rpm > > av

Re: #4444 BLOC V1.1: Measure peggs 100% even when in background

2007-10-29 Thread Zarro Boogs per Child
#: Measure peggs 100% even when in background ---+ Reporter: arjs | Owner: arjs Type: defect| Status: closed Priority: blocker | Milestone: V1.1 Compon

Re: list of rouge packages

2007-10-29 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On 10/29/07, John (J5) Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Avahi > > smcv is ontop of this > > owner: dcbw (Dan Williams) > > tmprepo: > > avahi-0.6.20-5.fc7.i386.rpm > avahi-autoipd-0.6.20-5.fc7.i386.rpm > avahi-compat-libdns_sd-0.6.20-5.fc7.i386.rpm > avahi-dnsconfd-0.6.20-5.fc7.i386.rpm > avah

list of rouge packages

2007-10-29 Thread John (J5) Palmieri
Dennis, Here is a list of the rouge packages, with notes, not yet in the build system or needing update there. I gathered this from the trial-3 tmp repo so joyride may have more and newer packages and some of these may be obsolete. I am cc'ing the devel list so others can correct the list and ad

New joyride build 151

2007-10-29 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build151/devel_jffs2/ < aspell-en.i386 50:6.0-7.fc7 < aspell.i386 12:0.60.5-3.fc7 < enchant.i386 1:1.3.0-1.fc6 < fribidi.i386 0:0.10.7-6.fc7 < hippo-canvas.i386 0:0.2.23-1.fc7 < hippo-canvas-python.i386 0:0.2.23-1.fc7 < hulahop.i386 0:0.2-0.22.

Re: Mandatory Changelogs

2007-10-29 Thread Michael Stone
Simon, Thanks for your question. The short answer is that Koji and the dropboxes are completely independent, parallel mechanisms for creating binary RPM repositories to be composed by pilgrim into a build image. Today, ChangeLogs are required only for packages included by the dropbox mechanism. We

Re: #4486 NORM Never A: Build 622 and firmware Q2D02 upgrade on a B4 system

2007-10-29 Thread Hartwell Fong
> Hartwell, > > Why did you make a report? reporting success to a > bug tracking system isn't worthwhile To Zarro Boogs per Child, Thank for the feedback. Regards, Hartwell Fong __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best

Re: Activity bundle Query

2007-10-29 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On 10/29/07, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/29/07 04:43, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API > > I wonder if the DBus SetActive() interface could be replaced > by something X based such as the VisibilityNotify event. Active as

Re: Activity bundle Query

2007-10-29 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Oct 29, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Same feeling here. Moreover, they told me the name FRS > has been canceled too, and we have a new Reload milestone > now. Sorry. We'll clear this up shortly. -- Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://radian.org _

Re: Activity bundle Query

2007-10-29 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 10/29/07 04:43, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API I wonder if the DBus SetActive() interface could be replaced by something X based such as the VisibilityNotify event. This would minimize the amount of work involved in ports of existing applicati

Re: [sugar] CODE FREEZE COMING!

2007-10-29 Thread Ivan Krstić
Hi Morgan, On Oct 29, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Morgan Collett wrote: > You've specified a lot of process, assuming the roadmap dates are > authoritative and we aren't in feature freeze yet... > Which dates are correct? apologies, there's quite a bit of confusion surrounding dates and releases. We expe

New joyride build 146

2007-10-29 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build146/devel_jffs2/ < Chat-25.xo < Connect-15.xo > Chat-28.xo > Connect-16.xo -- This email was automatically generated Aggregated logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html ___ Devel

New joyride build 146

2007-10-29 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build146/ devel_jffs2/ < Chat-25.xo < Connect-15.xo > Chat-28.xo > Connect-16.xo -- This email was automatically generated Aggregated logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html ___ D

Re: [sugar] CODE FREEZE COMING!

2007-10-29 Thread Morgan Collett
Jim Gettys wrote: > During this week, October 26 through November 1: > > You should be substantially complete with your development at > this date (October 26). > > If you are not: > > You MUST notify the community of any significant code you expec

Re: Mandatory Changelogs

2007-10-29 Thread Simon McVittie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 at 18:55:34 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Dear Sugar and Devel, > > ChangeLogs in the format described on > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Build_system#ChangeLog_Format > > are now MANDATORY for package inclusion. Please write yo

Re: Activity bundle Query

2007-10-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Oct 29, 2007, at 9:35 , Waqas Toor wrote: > Hello , > > but i was able to run the application from the terminal using gij > command > > and it works fine ... > so is there a way that i could bundle it Of course. The XO bundle format and Sugar were designed to work fine independent of

Re: Activity bundle Query

2007-10-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Depends on your targeted Sugar version, which are not compatible with each other. In the "old days", that is, the software that is going to be put into mass production, a.k.a. build 622, you had to execute an activity factory that would then run instances of your activity. This is obsolete

Re: Activity bundle Query

2007-10-29 Thread Waqas Toor
Hello , but i was able to run the application from the terminal using gij command and it works fine ... so is there a way that i could bundle it what does these lines mean The exec key specifies the executable which Sugar runs to start the activity instances. Environment variables give