Re: XO-1 SD card access during boot-up

2012-05-30 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:08:40AM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org writes: The XO-1 SD card slot power supply circuit does not have a discharge clamping function, and so when the firmware or software turns off the power to the slot, the voltage falls slowly.

Re: XO battery/performance

2012-05-30 Thread Yioryos Asprobounitis
If you want an idea of low-level performance, I can suggest running LMBench. Got the Debian lmbench_3.0-a7 source that compiles and runs fine w/o bitkeeper. Run the hardware part of the tests on the XO-1.5 (os880) and xo-1.75 (os12- correct kernel) with the same configuration. What was

Re: XO-1 SD card access during boot-up

2012-05-30 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 03:14:49AM -0400, John Watlington wrote: On May 30, 2012, at 2:04 AM, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:08:40AM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: Or is a software reset (i.e. CMD0) insufficient for reinitialisation in Linux? (The standard suggests [2] it

Re: XO-1 SD card access during boot-up

2012-05-30 Thread John Watlington
On May 30, 2012, at 3:42 AM, James Cameron wrote: Agreed. I meant a proper power cycle, not the type provided by XO-1 without supply discharge. My point is that it is hard to know if leaving the power on and using CMD0 is any better than turning the power off. We already have a delay in

11.3.1 release candidate 2 (build 885) released

2012-05-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
We're pleased to announce our second release candidate of our 11.3.1 software release. This RC supports XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75. Information and installation instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.3.1 Quick links for those who know which files need to be

Re: 11.3.1 release candidate 2 (build 885) released

2012-05-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: We're pleased to announce our second release candidate of our 11.3.1 software release. What is interesting about this build compared to the previous RC? All platforms - Updated OFW with various bugfixes and

Re: XO-1 SD card access during boot-up

2012-05-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: For three years now, as part of my XO customization I've had an initialization script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ that issues an explicit 'mount' This is a shot in the dark, but might be of use.Your mount script was racing with the

Re: [support-gang] Does Collection Stick work with 11.3.0 ?

2012-05-30 Thread Nathan C. Riddle
Forwarding this per request using reporting bugs: Quick and easy way Bug: collection stick on XO-1 or XO-1.5 running 11.3.0 does not collect serial number and UUID. Instead, the XO ignores stick and boots normally. Stick does work on XO-1 running build 650 or 8.02 . On Tue, May 29, 2012

Re: [support-gang] Does Collection Stick work with 11.3.0 ?

2012-05-30 Thread James Cameron
That's odd. I didn't think the collection stick software needed to reach into the filesystem to get at the operating system. So an operating system dependency is confusing. What firmware versions have you tried it with? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/

Re: [support-gang] Does Collection Stick work with 11.3.0 ?

2012-05-30 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:42:49PM -0400, Nathan C. Riddle wrote: Forwarding this per request using reporting bugs: Quick and easy way Bug: collection stick on XO-1 or XO-1.5 running 11.3.0 does not collect serial number and UUID. Instead, the XO ignores stick and boots normally. Stick