Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-11 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:43:02PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > We do not have a program available at the moment for the reverse of > fs-copy, Sorry, fs-save. fs-copy was a name used in early development but it was changed to fs-save. The reverse, if written, would be fs-restore. -- James Cam

Re: XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-11 Thread James Cameron
No, fs-update was not modified for this. zhashfs in olpc-os-builder was modified to place the zero block last in the .zd file. This would have worked in your favour. We found that erase commands sent to certain microSD cards would fail. We removed the erase commands from the start of fs-update.

Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-11 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:10:16PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On 9 April 2012 13:25, James Cameron wrote: > > - add new fs-save command [1] for preparing an image copy of internal > > ?storage, > > > > [1] ?http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d09/fs-save > > How useful is this for a

XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought that fs-update had been modified to make the XO unbootable unless the process was allowed to complete. I think this was achieved by blanking the first block and only writing it properly at the end. I am finding that XOs that have received an incomplete fs-upd

Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 9 April 2012 13:25, James Cameron wrote: > - add new fs-save command [1] for preparing an image copy of internal >  storage, > > [1]  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d09/fs-save How useful is this for a layperson to clone an XO's setup across a school/classroom? Is this a replacemen

Re: Porting alsa-info to sysfs -- for ARM platforms

2012-04-11 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 9 Apr 2012 17:35:52 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > Hi Jaroslav, Takashi, > > I am addressing you, because you seem to be the alsa-info maintainers. I am > part of OLPC's dev team, and our latest XO laptop model is based on a very > power-efficient ARM CPU. > > One of the oddities of t

Re: Kernel for 12.1.0

2012-04-11 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Wed, Apr 11 2012, Daniel Drake wrote: >> We have arm-3.3 and arm-3.4 branches available for use in 12.1.0. > > Great! Are these ready for build inclusion now, or are there still > some big parts broken? Still waiting for CMA+galcore and suspend/resume, so not ready yet -- probably next wee

Re: Kernel for 12.1.0

2012-04-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Chris Ball wrote: >> Hi Dan, >> >> We have arm-3.3 and arm-3.4 branches available for use in 12.1.0. > > Great! Are these ready for build inclusion now, or are there still > some big parts broken? > >> 3.4 fin

Re: Kernel for 12.1.0

2012-04-11 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Dan, > > We have arm-3.3 and arm-3.4 branches available for use in 12.1.0. Great! Are these ready for build inclusion now, or are there still some big parts broken? > 3.4 final will probably release in early June, and is at -rc2 now. > Are