Re: Run OFW heat spreader test

2012-01-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 01/23/2012 01:32 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 23 January 2012 17:20, James Cameron wrote: I thought you were doing this test to detect early units that may have a failed heat spreader, and you were doing it at the time of reflashing because that's when you had some control. Yes, that'

Re: XO-1 cpu temperature [Devel Digest, Vol 71, Issue 43]

2012-01-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 01/23/2012 02:56 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: The thing is that XO-1.5 has about twice the XO-1 processing power and is quite usable. So getting another 50%+ out of the XO-1 (albeit with risks) may keep it in stride with the new software versions a bit longer. Of course I do realize th

Re: Run OFW heat spreader test

2012-01-23 Thread Ed McNierney
Richard (et al.) - Please keep in mind that early ramp units of XO-1.5 were sent to Australia, and they are different (specifically with respect to the heat spreader) than all the production units that follow. - Ed On Jan 23, 2012, at 7:54 AM, Richard A. Smith wrote: > On 01/23/2012

Re: Run OFW heat spreader test

2012-01-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Richard A. Smith wrote: > Hmmm... Something else is the problem here.  You can't damage the processor > via thermal overload because it has an automatic clock back off.  If you > have motherboards that are failing its not due to a bad heat spreader.  At > worst all

Re: XO-1 cpu temperature [Devel Digest, Vol 71, Issue 43]

2012-01-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Although in some cases you can increase the clock frequency a bit and have it still function the system is designed to run at the specified frequency. We didn't use parts that were rated for 1Ghz and then dial it down. We used the highest speed parts that we could get in our cost range and desig

Re: XO-1 cpu temperature [Devel Digest, Vol 71, Issue 43]

2012-01-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 01/23/2012 01:56 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Although in some cases you can increase the clock frequency a bit and have it still function the system is designed to run at the specified frequency. We didn't use parts that were rated for 1Ghz and then dial it down. We used the highest speed part

Re: XO-1 cpu temperature [Devel Digest, Vol 71, Issue 43]

2012-01-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
If you ask nicely and give us the necessary failure info I'm sure we can tell you what you need to tweak to make it work again. The problem is that earlier versions had a separate partition on the built-in nand where the olpc.fth script (used by OFW) resided. That partition was defined by the

Re: XO-1 cpu temperature [Devel Digest, Vol 71, Issue 43]

2012-01-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > Please (I'm trying to ask nicely!), can you all tell me what I need to tweak > to make "customizing the olpc.fth" (plus run 'rpm -U kernel...') be > effective on 12.1.0.  [ I know how to make them work on 11.3.0. ] As a quick answer -- if

Re: fresh Gnash rpms for OLPC XO 1.75

2012-01-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Rob, THANKS! I have been personally flat out for the last 2 months or so with 1.75 stuff, hence my high latency. On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Rob Savoye wrote: > On 10/20/11 03:59, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> That's really good news! Rob, we can ship you a few more B1 units, if >> that h

Re: XO-1 cpu temperature [Devel Digest, Vol 71, Issue 43]

2012-01-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
if you don't feel like hunting down the correct block device on the linux side But there __is__ no block device defined by the 12.1.0 operating system when running on the XO-1. { Raw /dev/ubi0, whose partition contains the root file system, is defined as a character device. } I don't want to

Re: XO-1 cpu temperature [Devel Digest, Vol 71, Issue 43]

2012-01-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > I will liken "finding out OFW capabilities (and commands)" to "pulling hen's > teeth".  When I inquired in 2008, the answer was "read the code". Still > haven't gotten around to doing that. And then January 2012 came, and some lunatic gave

Re: XO-1 cpu temperature [Devel Digest, Vol 71, Issue 43]

2012-01-23 Thread James Cameron
Access to the jffs2 boot partition of the XO-1 NAND Flash is required for any kernel upgrade ... so having it missing should be breaking olpc-update. I expect this will need to be fixed during development of 12.1.0, and when it is fixed your access to the boot partition should be easier. It isn't

Re: fresh Gnash rpms for OLPC XO 1.75

2012-01-23 Thread Rob Savoye
On 01/23/12 15:17, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Without ffmpeg, what is a good test of current gnash? What is a > reasonable expectation of what it can deliver? I start with testing from source, ala "make check". The Gnash testsuite requires many dependences, many of which are not available in Fedo

Re: XO-1 cpu temperature [Devel Digest, Vol 71, Issue 43]

2012-01-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 01/23/2012 04:20 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Please (I'm trying to ask nicely!), can you all tell me what I need to tweak to make "customizing the olpc.fth" (plus run 'rpm -U kernel...') be effective on 12.1.0. [ I know how to make them work on 11.3.0. ] Ah.. I misunderstood you. When