Re: XO 1.5 frequency scaling

2010-05-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: > I have been wondering for some time how are you controlling the frequency of > the C7 processor in Fedora. Is this being done in the background by LWN recently did a nice post on "idle". That should give you good background info. AIUI, the j

[Server-devel] documentation for customizing XS ISO

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I thought I saw some "official" documentation once for how deployments can customize kickstart, add more packages, etc. Can't find it now. Was I dreaming? We're hitting various roadblocks in La Rioja and I'd like to make sure we're following what's documented, and that the docs are correct. R

Re: XO 1.5 frequency scaling

2010-05-04 Thread Tiago Marques
Hi Martin, On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: > > I have been wondering for some time how are you controlling the frequency > of > > the C7 processor in Fedora. Is this being done in the background by > > LWN recently did

[PATCH] activate.py: add diagnostic output for USB probing

2010-05-04 Thread Bernie Innocenti
This debug output helps finding out why activate.py refuses to activate a laptop. Without it, one is left wondering whether mount failed, leases.dat wasn't found or its content was incorrect. --- 30olpc-boot/activate.py |5 + 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/3

[PATCH] Fix boot on locked XO-1

2010-05-04 Thread Bernie Innocenti
We weren't passing "-t jffs2" to mount root on XO-1 when booting in locked mode. --- 30olpc-boot/olpc-boot-cmdline.sh |6 +- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/30olpc-boot/olpc-boot-cmdline.sh b/30olpc-boot/olpc-boot-cmdline.sh index fc79d18..ca3f561 100644 ---

[PATCH] Add journal-{backup,backup-list,restore}

2010-05-04 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Signed-off-by: Bernie Innocenti --- Makefile.build |3 +++ client/journal-backup | 43 +++ client/journal-backup-list | 38 ++ client/journal-restore | 30 ++ ds

Re: XO 1.5 frequency scaling

2010-05-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: > Let me see if I understand what you said. I understand how it works on > desktop and regular laptops. You load the module for the specific power > saving feature and either a kernel module to do the job I am far from being a true expert in th

Re: XO 1.5 frequency scaling

2010-05-04 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 05/04/2010 07:01 PM, Tiago Marques wrote: > Let me see if I understand what you said. I understand how it works on > desktop and regular laptops. You load the module for the specific power > saving feature and either a kernel module to do the job or the userspace > module which then allows a da

Re: XO 1.5 frequency scaling

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > > Running powertop on your machine is hugely informational once you've > read the powertop website docs. re: powertop -- with silbe's help our battery driver now provides enough of the expected properties under /sys to let powertop make crude power measurements [1]. you have t