Re: no serial number ?

2007-12-05 Thread Mitch Bradley
Can you get to the ok prompt? If you can, the machine is not bricked. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a B2-1 which I've just upgraded ready for a demo to a local > Australian senator. Unfortunately I've been bitten by the activation > process. > > At powerup it says "S/N Unknown", then > >

Re: no serial number ?

2007-12-05 Thread Mitch Bradley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Scott, > > > Um, I don't like those instructions at all. Why not just set the > > serial number in SPI flash, and set the 'ak' tag while you're at it? > > Mitch suggested that first, and it didn't work. Setting a SN tag plus > a U# tag did work, According to my recal

Re: joyride, ship.1 etc.

2007-12-06 Thread Mitch Bradley
Asheesh Laroia wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: > > >> Hi all >> >> i've put some notes in here.. >> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Stable_Upgrade >> > > Thanks for writing it up! > > I just tried it with a "USB memory key" (an SD card in a multi-card > reade

Announcing Q2D07, withdrawing Q2D05 and Q2D06

2007-12-07 Thread Mitch Bradley
set correctly (if your machine is working now, the RTC is okay), it won't go bad unless you remove the RTC battery or the RTC battery fails (unlikely for several years) or you go out of your way to invalidate the RTC value. My apologies for this egregious bug. Mitch Br

Re: Issue while upgrading firmware

2007-12-20 Thread Mitch Bradley
Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote: > On 12/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Alternating Current -- you really want to be plugged into a wall to >> upgrade firmware. >> > > Ha ha, I can't believe the "AC" meant that! And here I was thinking > it was some kind of checksum.

Re: Laptop debug

2007-12-20 Thread Mitch Bradley
As an alternative to wiring up a voltage converter chip, you can instead go directly to USB with a USB-to-serial chip such as a PL2303. The "traditional" arrangement is: USB-to-serial dongle -> DB9 -> serial cable -> DB9 -> 12V-to-3.3V-voltage-translator But inside the USB-to-serial dongle

Re: Laptop debug

2007-12-20 Thread Mitch Bradley
CBUS3 unconnected c) Connect RXD and TXD to the serial connector that goes to the XO Here is a part number for an adapter that will convert the surface mount chip to a DIP pinout that is easier to work with: http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail?name=A735-ND Mitch Bradley

Re: Laptop Debug

2007-12-20 Thread Mitch Bradley
This little module that Tom recommends is just perfect. Tom Sylla wrote: > (sorry for the broken threading) > > Building on Mitch's mail: > > A good option would be to just buy one of these: > http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/TTL-232R-3V3.htm > > for $20: > http://www.mouser.com/sea

Re: upgrading firmware on activated laptops

2007-12-22 Thread Mitch Bradley
Michael Stone wrote: > Emiliano, > > First things first - caveat emptor. > > Direct access to the firmware makes it very easy to brick your machine. > Do not attempt to use these instructions unless you are prepared to deal > with the possible consequences of mistakes and/or failure. Consult OFW >

Re: upgrading firmware on activated laptops

2007-12-23 Thread Mitch Bradley
Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >>> Please note that there are users like me who have the exact problem >>> described by http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5558. I have been >>> totally __unable__ to gain access to the Open Firmware "ok" prompt. >>> >> Please read the top section of >> http://wiki.laptop.

Re: multiple MTD partitions

2007-12-23 Thread Mitch Bradley
The main reason you have gotten no feedback is because we are ultra-busy right now with mass-production and other issues. I have been looking into partitioning schemes for some time now. We need to have a discussion about this, but now is not the time. Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Hello Mitch, >

Re: suspend/resume support?

2007-12-23 Thread Mitch Bradley
Jake B wrote: > Are XO developers planning to implement support for > suspend-to-RAM/resume on the XO? > Please let me know. Thanks. > That feature is already implemented. Press the power button and it suspends; press again to resume. Lid closures do it too. > Jake >

Re: suspend/resume support?

2007-12-23 Thread Mitch Bradley
G1G1 laptops are all "C2". Jake B wrote: > How can I tell what kind of model I have? Are the G1G1 laptops all of > a particular model? > Please let me know. Thanks. > > Jake > > On Dec 23, 2007 10:53 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> I've got joyride 1466 >> >>>

Re: Conway's Life activity

2007-12-23 Thread Mitch Bradley
You may be amused to know that the firmware has an Easter Egg of the Conway's Life. If you press the rocker pad (left side of screen) to the right after powering on, you will get a randomly-select amusement, one of which is Life. It uses the traditional life-death rule with a wrap-around fiel

Re: XO touchpad

2007-12-24 Thread Mitch Bradley
Ross Andrews wrote: > I got my laptop through G1G1 last week, and I've been trying to play > with all the neat facets of the hardware, but I'm unable to get the > other mode of the touchpad (the stylus mode) to do anything. Is there > a particular activity that uses it? Is there some way I ca

Re: Is DRM on every G1G1 laptop?

2007-12-24 Thread Mitch Bradley
John Gilmore wrote: > Please note that there are users like me who have the exact problem > described by http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5558. I have been > totally __unable__ to gain access to the Open Firmware "ok" prompt. > > Please read the top section o

Re: SD card won't power up in OFW

2007-12-26 Thread Mitch Bradley
ep through OFW's card prober. Mitch Bradley James Lee wrote: > I hope this isn't a bad place to post this. > > I have a Kingston 4GB Class 4 SDHC card which I'd like to use with my XO > (flashing, alternate distros, etc), but it does not seem to work in OFW. > Factor

Re: SD card won't power up in OFW

2007-12-26 Thread Mitch Bradley
I think we will need to debug this problem interactively on IRC. The card detection is fairly complicated, depending on v1 vs. v2 SD physical layer, MMC vs SD, SD vs SDHC, and on the set of operating voltages that the card supports. There are too many code paths for me to guess which one is b

Re: 3rd Fedora disk curdle

2007-12-27 Thread Mitch Bradley
This reminds me of a situation I ran into about a zillion years ago, using V6 Unix: The filesystem and the swapper disagreed about the boundary between the FS and swap areas, so parts of the FS were getting swapped onto. I suppose something like that might be possible with certain pathologic

NAND FLASH wear-out

2007-12-28 Thread Mitch Bradley
> >> I would hate to fill up my 1GB and use all my flash write cycles... >> The probability of wearing out NAND FLASH is much less than people seem to think. The part is rated for 100,000 *erase* cycles per block. There are 64 independently-writable 2K pages per block. Writing doesn't c

Re: I got a developer key -- now what? :)

2007-12-28 Thread Mitch Bradley
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Chris Ball wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> I signed up for a developer key, so I have one now. But what can I >>> do with it? >> >> You can do anything that you'd expect to do with a standard laptop; >> install any operating system, and flash a new BIOS. >> >>

Re: How can the XO be made accessible to blind

2007-12-30 Thread Mitch Bradley
David W Hogg wrote: > On a somewhat related note, is there any way to attach an external > monitor to the XO? I would love to give my astronomy research > seminars in the spring from my G1G1 XO; but this would also be useful > for those with impaired sight (some of my colleagues need to immensely

Re: OLPC News 2007-12-30

2007-12-30 Thread Mitch Bradley
> Richard noticed that on the community-development list there are at > least two reports of the EC going "terminal", meaning that on boot > they get the error message: "EC problem. Remove all power and > restart." We need to get those machines to Cambridge to investigate > further. > It is un

Re: OLPC News 2007-12-30

2007-12-30 Thread Mitch Bradley
Jaya Kumar wrote: > On Dec 31, 2007 3:23 AM, Mitch Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> resetting without the EC's knowledge. There is a 2-line patch in the >> ticket; it makes the kernel reboot using the approved EC interaction. >> > > Lo

Re: OLPC News 2007-12-30

2007-12-30 Thread Mitch Bradley
Richard A. Smith wrote: > Mitch Bradley wrote: > >>> Richard noticed that on the community-development list there are at >>> least two reports of the EC going "terminal", meaning that on boot >>> they get the error message: "EC problem. Remove

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-01 Thread Mitch Bradley
From a security standpoint, there is an advantage to building in everything. The main kernel is verified with a crypto signature before it is executed. Loading a module without first verifying a similarly-strong signature weakens the security. Modules are a good idea for kernels that are int

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-01 Thread Mitch Bradley
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Mitch Bradley wrote: > >> From a security standpoint, there is an advantage to building in >> everything. The main kernel is verified with a crypto signature before >> it is executed. Loading a module without first verifying a >&

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-01 Thread Mitch Bradley
Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Mitch Bradley wrote: > > >> From a security standpoint, there is an advantage to building in >> everything. The main kernel is verified with a crypto signature before >> it is executed. Loading a module without first verifying a &g

Re: Updates API documentation for everything.

2008-01-01 Thread Mitch Bradley
Edward Cherlin wrote: > >> Does anybody know of a documentation tool for Open Firmware, or for >> FORTH more generally? Exploring using 'words' and 'see' >> > > is fun up to a point if you're learning FORTH, but really doesn't cut > it for supporting documentation. > I presume that you ha

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
John Richard Moser wrote: > Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > >> Tom Sylla wrote: >> >> >>> http://openbios.org/viewvc/cpu/x86/pc/olpc/lxmsrs.fth?view=markup&revision=739&root=OpenFirmware >>> has: >>> msr: .1810 fdfff000.fd000111. \ Video (write through), fbsize >>> >>> which is setting t

Re: open firmware question

2008-01-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
Ricardo Carrano wrote: > How do I do the opposite of copy-nand - copy the OS image _from_ the nand > into a USB key? > ok save-nand u:\foo.img > -- > Ricardo Carrano > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/lis

Re: NAND FLASH wear-out

2008-01-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mitch Bradley wrote: > >> The part is rated for 100,000 *erase* cycles per block. There are 64 >> independently-writable 2K pages per block. Writing doesn't count in the &g

Re: Circumventing kernel signing

2008-01-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
At some point, when these fairly obvious loopholes that we have known about since forever are closed, we plan to change the key so new machines will only run the more secure OS versions. Old machines will continue to be vulnerable until they are upgraded to new firmware with the new key, and s

Re: Is it possible to disable the jingle at boot ?

2008-01-03 Thread Mitch Bradley
Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Mr frÿffe9dÿffe9ric pouchal wrote: > > >> I would like to disable the jingle at boot time >> > > you can lower the volume while the jingle is playing. OFW > will store it and remember it for the next boot. > > I wish the rest of our software sta

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-03 Thread Mitch Bradley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ... the biggest benefits look like they would be in > cleaning up the userspace boot process. there is a _lot_ of stuff started > that may not be needed in the stable hardware environment of the XO laptop > where there is really only one program active at a time (db

Re: shutting off wireless for air travel

2008-01-03 Thread Mitch Bradley
Ricardo Carrano wrote: > I would suggest: > > rmmod usb8xxx > That is (or at least used to be) ineffective, as the module would just get reloaded automatically. The workaround is (was?) to rename /lib/firmware/usb8388.bin > -- > Ricardo Carrano > > > -- Original Message --- >

Re: shutting off wireless for air travel

2008-01-03 Thread Mitch Bradley
This is all documented on the wiki. See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Airplane_mode and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ#How_do_I_disable_wireless_when_flying.3F If you don't want the wireless to restart automatically after a reboot, renaming /lib/firmware/usb8388.bin works. Ricardo Carran

Log of Software meeting, 2008-01-03

2008-01-03 Thread Mitch Bradley
[16:00] *** now talking in #olpc-meeting [16:01] Happy New Year, everyone. [16:02] hear, hear. [16:02] You too. [16:02] evening all. [16:02] 'appy new year [16:03] Mitch_Bradley: I gather you don't have to deal with our intel friends anymore [16:03] I gather we don't have Intel friend

Re: Weird WLAN problem after stupid upgrade attempt

2008-01-04 Thread Mitch Bradley
#x27;ll work with you on IRC to see if we can learn more about the failure details. Mitch Bradley ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: open firmware question

2008-01-04 Thread Mitch Bradley
Ivan Krstić wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:13 PM, Ricardo Carrano wrote: > >> How do I do the opposite of copy-nand - copy the OS image _from_ the >> nand into a USB key? >> > > If you don't have OFW access or it isn't convenient to have to reboot, > you can use my 45-second Python hack

Re: [OT] struggles installing builds

2008-01-05 Thread Mitch Bradley
I would like to debug these problems. Find me on IRC - /server irc.oftc.net /join #olpc-devel . Instances of devices that exhibit such problems are valuable for discovering where delays are needed. If would be nice if devices conformed to the published timing requirements, but alas, many d

Re: Boot Failure

2008-01-06 Thread Mitch Bradley
The fact that it is trying to boot from the wireless device means that it didn't find /boot/olpc.fth on either USB, SD, or NAND. What happens if you type: ok dir n:\boot\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > I updated build 613 into 650 on B4 Machine. For some time, it worked > well. Howev

Re: jffs zlib tuning

2008-01-07 Thread Mitch Bradley
write an asm implementation for > zlib inflate (decompression) since Mitch Bradley said that the read > speed is 3MB/sec which is dominated by the decompression code. > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-November/007527.html > > > Since then I went through the pain of

Re: Announcing OLPC firmware Q2D08

2008-01-09 Thread Mitch Bradley
ffm wrote: > Will it be auto-installed when I olpc-update to latest joyride, or > will it have to be manualy installed? Manual. > > -ffm > > On Jan 9, 2008 4:33 PM, Mitch Bradley < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > http:/

Announcing OLPC firmware Q2D08

2008-01-09 Thread Mitch Bradley
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2d08 This firmware has a large number of mostly-minor improvements. It is a test candidate for the Update.1 release. At present, a signed version of it is not available, so only developers can install it. ___

SD resume timing

2008-01-09 Thread Mitch Bradley
At today's bug status meeting, I was asked to investigate SD card resume timing from OFW. The range was 24 mS to 187 mS , depending on which SD card is plugged in. The fixed component of that time is about 5 mS, including re-initing the host controller and issuing a sequence of card commands th

Re: Weird WLAN problem after stupid upgrade attempt

2008-01-09 Thread Mitch Bradley
any more complete of a device wipe >> beyond the normal reflashing procedure using the signed build from a >> usb stick? >> >> I appreciate your help. I hope we can figure out what's up with this >> thing. >> >>

Re: GRUB on OLPC / XO

2008-01-12 Thread Mitch Bradley
Robert Millan wrote: > Some comments on things that need polishing. Some are more addressed at one > of the two lists than the others, but feel free to join in either case. > > (also, if you feel this is off-topic in olpc-devel, feel free to ki^W let > me know) > > btw, Mitch mentioned to me on IR

Re: GRUB on OLPC / XO

2008-01-12 Thread Mitch Bradley
Robert Millan wrote: > > >>> We used to run "trap" insttruction on powerpc. I assume for exitting via >>> trap >>> on i386 we need to generate an interrupt; I'm just not sure which is the >>> right >>> number for it. >>> >>> >> To exit to OFW, call the "exit()" client service. >

Re: GRUB on OLPC / XO

2008-01-12 Thread Mitch Bradley
I was wrong about the mmu thing. I just checked the patch instructions at http://openbios.org/Open_Firmware and noticed that the patch comments out "create virtual-mode". So if you build with that patch, you get physical addressing. I don't know what is "right", because this build configurat

Re: How to change the screen resolution ?

2008-01-13 Thread Mitch Bradley
Mr frÿffe9dÿffe9ric pouchal wrote: > Hello > I would like to change the screen resoltuion of my > olpc > > I have tried to pass an argument to the kernel > video=gxfb:1024x768-16 > but it failed > The screen resolution is fixed; it can't be changed. > I also tried to test the

Re: q2d08A firmware anywhere?

2008-01-13 Thread Mitch Bradley
Martin Dengler wrote: > Hi, > > I'm seeing plenty of suspend/resume problems with my G1G1 C2 laptop > (joyride-1532 with firmware q2d08), and I'd like to try the latest > firmware before I file any proper trac bug reports[1]. I can't seem > to find where to download it on the wiki (though it's bee

Re: B2s and OFW

2008-01-16 Thread Mitch Bradley
Ricardo Carrano wrote: > Hi Mitch! > > Would you recommend using firmware version q2d07 on a B2-1 unit? Yes. > > And, btw, I assume 'save-nand' in q2c25 won't create the respective > crc file, right? It did not in a test, at least. That feature first appeared in Q2D02. > > Thanks a lot! > Rica

Re: B2s and OFW

2008-01-16 Thread Mitch Bradley
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 17.01.2008 02:02, Mitch Bradley wrote: > >> Ricardo Carrano wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Mitch! >>> >>> Would you recommend using firmware version q2d07 on a B2-1 unit? >>> >>> >

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-17 Thread Mitch Bradley
Hal Murray wrote: >> When it comes to our radio - we *designed it* to start forward frames >> soon after you initialize it and keep doing it regardless of what the >> host interface does. >> > > In the context of making the radio safe to use on airplanes... > > Does the firmware turn the radi

Re: problem compiling the firmware

2008-01-17 Thread Mitch Bradley
Mr frÿffe9dÿffe9ric pouchal wrote: > Hello > > I downloaded the firmware > > svn co svn://openbios/openfirmware > I assume you meant "openbios.org", not just "openbios". > then > > cd ./cpu/x86/pc/olpc/build > I assume you first did "cd openfirmware" > make clean > make

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-17 Thread Mitch Bradley
I suppose that OFW could reset the wireless to turn it off and then do some chipset configuration hack that would make that USB port disappear. I'm just guessing though; I haven't studied the 5536 manual with this possibility in mind. That seems like a fairly horrible way to solve a Linux prob

Re: Violent games on the OLPC Activities page

2008-01-17 Thread Mitch Bradley
Samuel Klein wrote: > > A serious review of Doom [fast, well-programmed, modularly-skinned, > open source] in line with educational goals would not be wasted -- my > guess is that with some art and music and sound effort, and some AI > tweaks, one could use its engine and most of its levels to prod

Re: Openfirmware customisation problem - booting from USB

2008-01-18 Thread Mitch Bradley
Mr frÿffe9dÿffe9ric pouchal wrote: > Hello > I would like to boot OpenFirmware from an USB key On a conventional PC or an OLPC XO? The former is supported; the latter could be made to work but will probably require some changes. > so I > changed the file > > /openfirmware/c

Re: SD card won't power up in OFW

2008-01-19 Thread Mitch Bradley
Fixed in Q2D08 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5717 David Howard wrote: > Saw a short thread with this subject in December 2007. > > I also got the "SDHCI: Card didn't power up after 1 second" message. > > The SD is a Toshiba SDHC 4GB. > > Q2D07 and 650/653/656 OS. I tried last two on the SD after

Re: Update.1 & testing

2008-01-20 Thread Mitch Bradley
Jameson "Chema" Quinn wrote: > I know that we're supposed to all be developers here, and know how to > change the firmware in our sleep; but it would be great to include a > link to instructions. I searched the wiki - > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manual_Firmware_Install is worse than > useless,

Re: Update.1 & testing

2008-01-20 Thread Mitch Bradley
Jameson "Chema" Quinn wrote: > > > Simple. Put the manual install instructions in > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manual_Firmware_Install and then, in > each relnotes page add {{:Manual_Firmware_Install}}, which will > include the text of that page in the one it is as a template

Re: joyride-1563 broken, olpc.fth missing, fails to boot [FIX]

2008-01-21 Thread Mitch Bradley
You don't really need the entire olpc.fth - the following lines should suffice: ok setenv ramdisk n:\boot\olpcrd.img ok boot n:\boot\vmlinuz root=mtd0 rootfstype=jffs2 Those lines are short enough to type manually. The rest of olpc.fth is just automated reflash and support for boot-alt. Most of

Re: Questions about openfirmware build environment

2008-01-22 Thread Mitch Bradley
llandre wrote: > Hi all, > > I have some questions about openfirmware build environment. I could not > find these information on OLCP wiki. > I successfully cloned the git repository and built ofw on x86-64 host > running CentOS, however I'd like to understand exactly how the build > process wor

Re: Control the +5V USB port power on the XO

2008-01-23 Thread Mitch Bradley
Arjun Sarwal wrote: > Is there a way to switch Off (and subsequently toggle) the +5V USB > power supply on the XO in software ? Yes, but it's complicated, because a) the way you do it depends on whether or not the USB 2.0 host controller has claimed the port. b) the USB port that controls the

Re: New update.1 build 687

2008-01-23 Thread Mitch Bradley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm occasionally seeing an issue with the keyboard in recent builds (no > problem on 682, I've seen problems on everything since). This is a G1G1 > laptop > Are you using Q2D09 firmware? There have been reports of strange keyboard behavior as a result of some EC c

Re: New update.1 build 687

2008-01-23 Thread Mitch Bradley
manually revert to q2d08 (see the instructions on the wiki page for q2d08) and remove the bootfw.zip from /versions/boot/current/boot (to keep it from autoupdating right back to d09) and the problem might go away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Mitch Bradley wrote: > >

Re: [sugar] What's left for Update.1

2008-02-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
I can make a q2d12 with the fix for 6291. The fix is extremely low risk - just a change in one number that tells how far to search for additional nodes in a partially-written block. The only reason why I haven't made a q2d12 already is because I can't get to the build server - the machine "lea

Announcing OLPC firmware Q2D12

2008-02-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
It is Q2D11 plus a fix for http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6291 . It has Richard's latest EC improvements (as in D11). http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2d12 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: disabling root and olpc passwords

2008-02-04 Thread Mitch Bradley
Gary Oberbrunner wrote: > subbukk wrote: > >> sftp and scp both require receiver to share login password with sender. nc >> doesn't. It just reads/writes bytestreams from/to network sockets. E.g. You >> can transfer sub-directories across machines with : >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ nc -lp |

Re: Pen Tablet firmware test doesn't work on beta2 machine

2008-02-04 Thread Mitch Bradley
Patrick Dubroy wrote: > I've got a beta2 machine, and access to a beta4 machine as well. On > the B2, when I boot into the firmware tests and get to the Pen > Tablet/Glide Sensor test, I get absolutely no response from the Pen > Tablet. The Glide Sensor (touchpad) works fine. I've also tried > runn

Formal release methodolology

2008-02-05 Thread Mitch Bradley
Kim Quirk wrote: > Ok... I think what we haven't defined at this point that is probably > worthy of discussion is: > > If or when we will need formalized testing before release. > > If we decide that there is a good reason for formalized testing; then > we can put in place the process that ensure

Re: Formal release methodolology

2008-02-05 Thread Mitch Bradley
C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Feb 5, 2008 1:50 PM, Mitch Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> FYI, here is how the firmware team (i.e. Richard and I) implement the >> release-stabilization parts of the above. I do not address the formal >> testing here, just

Re: Update.1 690 very slow on B2-7 XO

2008-02-06 Thread Mitch Bradley
Stephen Bannasch wrote: > With regard to build406.16. Can I just replace os656.crc and os656.img > in the boot dir on my USB flash stick with os406.icrc and os406.img > and startup with it? > > Will build406.16 work with q2d12? Q2D12 is compatible with all OS builds that have come out in recent

Re: Mistake changing seria number

2010-04-20 Thread Mitch Bradley
Your only option at this point is to replace the SPI FLASH part. Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > One of the XOs 1.5 here in La Rioja have the serial number with lower > case letters "SHC00500ad0", this machine can't be activated. > We tried to change the tag, but made a mistake and used "delete-tag" > a

Re: Mistake changing seria number

2010-04-20 Thread Mitch Bradley
Well, actually, there is one other option - it is possible to use one XO-1.5 to reprogram the SPI FLASH inside another. It requires that you solder header connectors to both machines and connect them with a ribbon cable. I don't think that there is a writeup for how to do it. Mitch Br

Announcing Q2E43 firmware for XO-1

2010-05-13 Thread Mitch Bradley
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e43 is a candidate for a general-availability firmware release for XO-1. It fixes problems found during testing of q2e42, which was not intended for general availability (because we suspected it would have problems due to the long interval from q2e41 t

Re: Announcing Q2E43 firmware for XO-1

2010-05-17 Thread Mitch Bradley
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote: > >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e43 is a candidate for a >> general-availability firmware release for XO-1. It fixes problems found >> during testing of q2e42, which was

Q3A44

2010-07-19 Thread Mitch Bradley
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q3a44 is the latest firmware release. It supports secure XO-1.5 NANDblasting and the new mechanical keyboards. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Q3A44

2010-07-19 Thread Mitch Bradley
We just found and fixed a bug in q3a44 that breaks fs-update in secure mode. q3a45 will be issued within a few hours, so you can just forget about q3a44 and wait for q3a45 . Mitch Bradley wrote: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q3a44 is the latest firmware > release. It su

Announcing OFW Q3A48

2010-08-03 Thread Mitch Bradley
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q3a48 * Fixes a SD card timeout problem with ADATA 4GB and 8GB SD cards * User interface improvements in "test /keyboard" to help catch a "stuck key" problem seen in the factory * Resume-from-S3 now works with Windows XP ___

New Forth Lesson - Open Firmware System Initialization

2010-08-13 Thread Mitch Bradley
Submitted for your consideration and amusement: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lesson_20 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: SD card flashing time

2010-09-16 Thread Mitch Bradley
On 9/16/2010 1:28 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:01 PM, James Cameron wrote: >> No, certainly not. There's no justification for either mke2fs or >> resize2fs to write to blocks that do not form part of the filesystem >> metadata. Why would you want to zero-out blocks an

Announcing OFW Q3A58

2010-09-20 Thread Mitch Bradley
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q3a58 is a new OFW release for XO-1.5. It fixes problems with the audio CODEC protection settings and includes new EC firmware. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/d

Re: Detecting XO-1.5 in kernel boot

2010-09-21 Thread Mitch Bradley
On 9/21/2010 6:15 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > I'm working on XO-1.5 support upstream and would appreciate comments > on the following: > > > > The very core "am I an XO?" check that runs during boot is this: > > http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c#L212 > > It runs ioremap() o

Re: Detecting XO-1.5 in kernel boot

2010-09-21 Thread Mitch Bradley
On 9/21/2010 7:24 AM, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:35:48 -1000 > Mitch Bradley wrote: > > ... >> You could get all the information from the device tree, after having >> first checked for the presence of the device tree by looking for the >

Re: XO-1 DCON trouble with new kernels

2010-11-13 Thread Mitch Bradley
The DCON does not "see" video memory directly - it works with the real-time display data that is driven onto the wires that would normally go to an LCD panel. I wonder if, in the VT case, the driver is stopping the display controller soon after clearing the DCONLOAD pin? In that case, I can i

Re: XO-1.5 ACPI ebook switch

2010-11-19 Thread Mitch Bradley
Does the ACPI spec say anything about an ebook switch? Lid switch, power button and sleep button are standard ACPI thingys, but I'm not sure there is an ACPI standard for other kinds of buttons. A search of the ACPI spec for "button" didn't find anything other than power and sleep. ACPI, in g

Re: XO-1.5 DSDT: enable THRM# GPIO (ebook) by default

2010-12-05 Thread Mitch Bradley
I know very little about how ebook detection works on Windows. There is a magic Windows driver that does that stuff, and we don't have much insight into its inner workings. The only thing I can suggest is to test it. On 12/4/2010 5:20 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi Mitch, > > With this DSDT cha

Re: [PATCH 1/3] olpc-battery: add support for CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN

2010-12-10 Thread Mitch Bradley
There is some battery info in the _BIF (battery info) method in the BATT node of the ACPI DSDT. I don't remember if it is correct or not. The numbers below match the DSDT numbers. On 12/10/2010 2:38 PM, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:15:10 + > David Woodhouse wrote: > >> O

Re: [PATCH 1/3] olpc-battery: add support for CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN

2010-12-10 Thread Mitch Bradley
ec 2010 14:56:15 -1000 > Mitch Bradley wrote: > >> There is some battery info in the _BIF (battery info) method in the >> BATT node of the ACPI DSDT. I don't remember if it is correct or >> not. The numbers below match the DSDT numbers. > > Wait, so where did *

Q3A62

2010-12-17 Thread Mitch Bradley
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q3a62 svn 2054 - SDHCI - keep track of last 8 commands and display them when an error occurs. svn 2065 - Increase external SD card power-up off time for a 32 G class 10 SD card being tested. svn 2068 - Changed the check for NTLDR to be less language-sensit

Denouncing Q4A10

2010-12-20 Thread Mitch Bradley
I released Q4A10, but you should not use it unless your name is Quanta. It is for the A2 board build. It will not work on any boards currently in existence. I am sending this message in case someone happens to find it and somehow misses all the "Do Not Use" warnings on the web page.

Re: XO-1.5 wifi wakeup mechanics

2011-01-13 Thread Mitch Bradley
You already know more about this than I do, so I can't be of any help here. On 1/13/2011 3:47 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > Low priortity query... > > I'm investigating the possibility of implementing _SWS (system wakeup > source) support in the XO-1.5 DSDT, along with _SWS support in Linux. >

Re: bios-crypto: do we use cli_tool or libtfm_cli.a / libtomcrypto_cli.a?

2011-02-16 Thread Mitch Bradley
I don't thing that cli_tool is needed. I don't use it. On 2/16/2011 9:18 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Mitch, list, > > Context -- I am in the midst of reworking a bit bios-crypto, while > trying hard to avoid breaking things for Mitch and others that are > likely working from src. > > [ more back

Re: [PATCH openfirmware v2] Add more info to device tree

2011-02-28 Thread Mitch Bradley
Patch applied to svn head. Note that it might be prudent to do the patch in olpc.fth instead of going through a release/test cycle for XO-1 OFW. On 2/28/2011 7:09 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > In Linux we plan to use the device tree for probing the DCON, battery, and > XO-1 RTC drivers. > > Add the

Re: 'menu' in OFW on an XO-1

2011-03-13 Thread Mitch Bradley
On 3/13/2011 8:09 AM, Richard A. Smith wrote: > On 03/13/2011 01:15 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >> With firmware Q2E45 on an XO-1 (yes, I finally got it unlocked!), I >> type 'menu' at the ok prompt. >> >> On an XO-1.5, I get a very useful list of icons that run different >> hardware tests. On

Re: zhashfs: write first block last

2011-03-20 Thread Mitch Bradley
On 3/20/2011 6:58 AM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Mar 20 2011, Daniel Drake wrote:> >> 1. Is this approach a good idea? > > Sounds great to me. > >> 2. Are we bothered by a misleading WARNING message appearing at the >> end of the flashing process for those running on old/current firmware

Re: zhashfs: write first block last

2011-03-20 Thread Mitch Bradley
On 3/20/2011 6:58 AM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Mar 20 2011, Daniel Drake wrote:> >> 1. Is this approach a good idea? > > Sounds great to me. > >> 2. Are we bothered by a misleading WARNING message appearing at the >> end of the flashing process for those running on old/current firmware

Re: zhashfs: write first block last

2011-05-05 Thread Mitch Bradley
On 5/5/2011 9:08 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 5 May 2011 08:57, James Cameron wrote: >> Q3A65 removed this blanking, because it interfered with NANDblaster, >> which stores the received blocks of the .zd file in the SD card before >> fs-update begins. On extending the blanking to the whole devi

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