Re: Images partitioned right?

2009-10-09 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> Using an USB->SD adapter with one of those recommended SD cards might > be a good idea. I'm very heavily dependent on SD cards. In 2008 it was my experience that using a particular hub/adapter to initialize SD cards, I was often seeing partition table corruption. What I ended up doing was t

Re: Images partitioned right? Good USB drives? (Re: Woodhouse on flash storage)

2009-10-09 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:23:17PM -0700, S Page wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Mitch Bradley wrote: > > > b) If you must construct a fixed partition layout for use on multiple > > different devices, align each partition on at least a 4MiB boundary. > > That means that you "waste" 4M fo

Re: Images partitioned right? Good USB drives? (Re: Woodhouse on flash storage)

2009-10-09 Thread Tiago Marques
OCZ Rally 2 4GB has worked fine for me for a year now. If you go for the OCZ Rally 2 Turbo, it has higher random write speeds(faster boot, opening apps) but I'm not sure about reliabilty. OCZ has a good reputation for good reliability on most of it's products. Using an USB->SD adapter with one of

Images partitioned right? Good USB drives? (Re: Woodhouse on flash storage)

2009-10-09 Thread S Page
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Mitch Bradley wrote: > b) If you must construct a fixed partition layout for use on multiple > different devices, align each partition on at least a 4MiB boundary. > That means that you "waste" 4M for the partition map (one 512-byte > sector padded out to a 4 MiB b

rpmbuild macro for libgcc.a location?

2009-10-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
Working on an OLPC package (olpc-bios-crypto, which has a reasonable chance of being upstreamable when it stabilizes)... we keep appending -L lines to make it build in different releases / distros. Is there an rpm macro that points to the location of libgcc.a? Or an elegant way to get it? (While a

Re: [Server-devel] XS upgrade

2009-10-09 Thread Henry Vélez Molina
Thanks. I will work with 6.0 version from scratch can I manage moodle from any computer? or it is only for the XOs El 4 de octubre de 2009 10:40, Martin Langhoff escribió: > CC'ing the list again - let's keep it on list so otehrs can help too... > > 2009/10/2 Henry Vélez Molina : > > "Error: Data

Re: [Server-devel] Upgrading from XS0.6d3 or beta etc.

2009-10-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Dave Bauer wrote: > Is it possible to upgrade from a prerelease version to XS 0.6 final with yum? Yes, definitely. Follow the same procedure as for XS-0.5.x, including the post-upgrade steps... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software#Upgrade_from_XS_0.5_o

Re: GPIOs

2009-10-09 Thread Paul Fox
john wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > > > john wrote: > >> > >> I'm proposing a new GPIO map for XO-1.5 B3 and beyond. > >> > >> The changes are: > >> - Moved the control signals for the internal and external SD ports > >> and the WLAN around to match new port

[Server-devel] Upgrading from XS0.6d3 or beta etc.

2009-10-09 Thread Dave Bauer
Is it possible to upgrade from a prerelease version to XS 0.6 final with yum? Thanks Dave -- Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com http://www.solutiongrove.com ___ Server-devel mailing list server-de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/serv

Re: GPIOs

2009-10-09 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 9, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > john wrote: >> >> I'm proposing a new GPIO map for XO-1.5 B3 and beyond. >> >> The changes are: >> - Moved the control signals for the internal and external SD ports >> and the WLAN around to match new port assignment. >> >> - The power control for

Re: GPIOs

2009-10-09 Thread Paul Fox
john wrote: > > I'm proposing a new GPIO map for XO-1.5 B3 and beyond. > > The changes are: > - Moved the control signals for the internal and external SD ports > and the WLAN around to match new port assignment. > > - The power control for the internal SD port (MSD_PWROFF) is provided

Re: signed F11 for XO-1

2009-10-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Esteban Bordon wrote: > are the kernel params hardcoded in OFW for secure boot? Yes -- on "insecure boot" boot/olpc.fth is read, but not on secure boot. Notes at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Boot_Process If you want to see how the kernel params are setup in OFW, you

Re: GPIOs

2009-10-09 Thread Mitch Bradley
I hope we can find some better way to distinguish between the different board flavors in early startup code. The current technique, involving an EC command (whose response latency cannot be guaranteed) with the answer cached in CMOS RAM (which cannot be accessed quickly due to the power-glitch