Re: announcing 1.75 firmware Q4C07

2011-12-03 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:19:49 -0500 Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4c07 this is primarily an EC release. it has numerous battery system changes, and it introduces support for preserving the keystroke which causes a system resume, FWIW, my C1 will

Re: announcing 1.75 firmware Q4C07

2011-12-03 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:21:23 -0500 Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: FWIW, my C1 will not boot with this version. Silly me, I didn't note what release it had initially...q4c06 also fails (everything just stops after it tries to jump to the kernel), but q4c01 works. I can bisect it to the

Re: [Techteam] Kernel 3.0 rpm for XO-1.75

2011-07-27 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:07:13 +0100 Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: I know in Fedora 16 there were a number of tools that didn't play well with the 3.0 (likely not a complete problem as I think the final release was in fact 3.0.0) and the 2.6 numbering schemes. Seemingly there

Re: via-camera upstream test results

2010-10-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:23:10 +0100 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Testing with clean linux-next as of today. 2 via-camera issues: If that's all that goes wrong we've come a fair ways...:) 1. Approx 13 VIA DMA timeout! messages are printed every second That seems undesirable. In the

Re: Reason for the one dot hang found!

2010-06-12 Thread Jonathan Corbet
[Sorry for the slow response...naturally enough I'm in Europe and falling behind on things. On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:01:34 -0400 Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: I doubt it is directly related to locking. If (as you say) there is no crash in the logs then I suspect it is related to an

Re: Commit 2671e48d broke camera on XO-1

2010-03-13 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:04 +0100 Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-olpc-de...@silbe.org wrote: One of your somewhat recent commits, 2671e48d [1], broke the camera on XO-1. I saw the bug entry, yes. The TWSI port is Vdd=2.5..3.3V only, so not fully I2C compliant = SMBus is the best fit.

Re: XO Camera

2009-04-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:52:54 +0100 Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Which kernel are you running? The kernel is the rawhide variant 2.6.29.1 from about a week ago. OK, that should rule out Hans's changes. In which case I'm totally mystified...not a whole lot else has happened

Re: XO Camera

2009-04-23 Thread Jonathan Corbet
[Sorry for the slow response, I am losing the battle with my inbox in a spectacular way...] I've been playing with rawhide on the XO this morning now that I've finally got it booting of the SD easily and regularly. It seems the camera doesn't work either in the record app or in

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Define and use PCI_DEVICE_ID_MARVELL_88ALP01_CCIC for CAFÉ camera driver

2008-09-03 Thread Jonathan Corbet
forget about it now. I see no harm in having the driver check the device to ensure it's what it thinks it is - we can probably afford the runtime overhead. But whatever, I'm not that concerned; toss in an Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you wish. jon

Re: cafe_ccic/ov7670 hang on boot

2008-06-18 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as we can see, this patch was never included in any OLPC builds. However, we do ship some other delay improvements such as http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=olpc-2.6;a=commitdiff;h=4ef53002 That patch is a bit of a sledgehammer approach; it really

Re: cafe_ccic/ov7670 hang on boot

2008-06-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, thanks for the input. However there doesn't seem to be a timeout in the case added by commit 6d77444aca29: + do { + prepare_to_wait(cam-smbus_wait, the_wait, + TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); +

Re: cafe_ccic/ov7670 hang on boot

2008-06-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The hang occurs somewhere inside/below ov7670_write_array. I'm just wondering if you have any ideas or suggestions here? I've seen the bug report go by, but I'm only just today back in the country after a couple of weeks on vacation. I'll look into it,

Re: Walter leaving and shift to XP.

2008-04-23 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, regarding Microsoft, I agree that if it is to be an open platform, it should be open to everyone, including Microsoft. That said, it is somewhat revisionist to suggest that the SD card was added on behalf of Microsoft Such statements certainly

controlling AGC of camera on the XO

2008-02-21 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Arjun Sarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (1) Am I poking in the right place ? No, the PWC driver is not used on the XO. The OLPC camera driver driver can be found in two pieces: drivers/media/video/cafe_ccic.c (the controller driver) drivers/media/vidoe/ov7670.c

Re: Outstanding kernel patches

2008-01-14 Thread Jonathan Corbet
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we don't do it like that, we need to remember to chase our changes upstream. Here's a quick summary of what looks like it needs to be (cleaned up and) pushed upstream... [...] Jon Corbet: Some cafe_ccic.c changes Actually, I've sent all of

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-01 Thread Jonathan Corbet
I can't speak for the OLPC kernel folks, but here's a few thoughts: First off I noticed CONFIG_NO_HZ=y and CONFIG_HZ=100; is this a quirk of the kernel's general configuration? As I understand, these options should be mutually exclusive because CONFIG_HZ is a parameter of a scheduler

Re: Unable to initialize camera (via mmap interface)

2007-12-13 Thread Jonathan Corbet
in support for VIDIOCGMBUF is actually feasible, though not entirely trivial. Far better, if at all possible, would be to use the V4L2 API, which (like high-definition TV and IPv6) is definitely the way of the future. Someday. jon Jonathan Corbet / LWN.net / [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cafe_ccic slowness in VIDIOC_S_FMT

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here you see that calling VIDIOC_S_FMT takes 3655992 microseconds, which is a _really_ long time. Turns out that cafe_cam_configure() from s_fmt_cap() takes 378 jiffies. Trying to make this better was already on my list. The problem is that the Cafe

Re: Pagemap

2007-06-27 Thread Jonathan Corbet
[Hi, Jordan, from across the room] They just talked about pagemap from Matt Mackall during an BoF at OLS. This seems like something useful we can use to measure our memory usage - in particular, it is screaming for tinderbox integration.. :) http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/3/405 It's good