RE: Image Creator platforms

2008-09-17 Thread Rhoads, Rob
Alek, Does anyone still use the Melow-lpia platform in M-I-C? -RobR Spencer, Bob wrote: > Loic, thanks for the info > Rob, Can you let me know if there are any images you use regularly. > > Given the feedback, > > Remove the following platforms: > Mccaslin-lpia > Mccaslin-lpia-fedo

RE: Fix for squashfs disk corruption problem

2008-01-09 Thread Rhoads, Rob
Michael Frey wrote: > Yes, That is exactly what I did. > Right. What I was trying to say is that we now need to commit these changes to the source repos on moblin. Do you have a patch of your changes? -RobR > Michael > > On Jan 9, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Rhoads, Rob wrote: > >

RE: Fix for squashfs disk corruption problem

2008-01-09 Thread Rhoads, Rob
Michael Frey wrote: > Rob, > > Dave Mandala asked me to inform you of the following. > > After some investigation, I found that changing Moblin Image Creator > to format all partitions as ext3 fixes the "disk corruption" issue. > > It turns out that the partition that holds the squashfs image w

Moblin Kernel and Driver Status for WW51

2007-12-19 Thread Rhoads, Rob
2.6.24 Kernel Support = Alek continues to port the patches from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24. He is using/referencing the work previously done by Amit. PSB / SLT HW Support Jacob still owes me a patch to work around the MWAIT/local APIC timer issue. We decided to go wi

RE: Moblin Kernel and Driver Status for WW50

2007-12-13 Thread Rhoads, Rob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm doing memory consumption research as well at the moment; > I would be > interested in learning more about the scripts (no need to investigate > *releasing* them at this point): are you investigating > individual apps? > The whole system? How are you blaming memor

Moblin Kernel and Driver Status for WW50

2007-12-12 Thread Rhoads, Rob
2.6.24 Kernel Support = Alek cloned a new kernel repository for holding the 2.6.24 kernel on moblin.org at http://www.moblin.org/repos/develop/linux-2.6.24.git. We're still in our planning for supporting the 2.6.24 kernel, but Alek has started the effort to port our patches to t

Moblin Kernel & Driver Status

2007-12-05 Thread Rhoads, Rob
PSB / SLT HW Support Jacob is still root causing the Local APIC Timer issue, this is looking like a potential Si issue with the mwait instruction while in C1 state with Tickless idle enabled. Wakeup events are being ignored. Jacob is working on a workaround for the issue. SDIO

RE: Moblin Kernel & Driver Status

2007-11-30 Thread Rhoads, Rob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 11/30/07, Rhoads, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Not exactly. Let me try (again) to clarify what were doing in order >> of priority for us... >> >> 1. Release the 8688 drivers (BT & WLAN) to work on 2.6.22 plus Pierr

RE: Moblin Kernel & Driver Status

2007-11-29 Thread Rhoads, Rob
Tony Espy wrote: > > i can get you contact info for airdio if you'd like. > Please send your contact info to Feng Tang (the real engineer doing the work) and myself. We'll see if we can coordinate our work somehow. -RobR -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify sett

RE: Moblin Kernel & Driver Status

2007-11-29 Thread Rhoads, Rob
Tony Espy wrote: > Rhoads, Rob wrote: > i just want to re-iterate that airdio ( they make the part > being used by > compal ) is currently working on porting the v9 driver to > gutsy as we'd > been told several times that intel would not be doing this work. > > th

RE: Moblin Kernel & Driver Status

2007-11-29 Thread Rhoads, Rob
Pat McGowan wrote: > Rob > > Our customer is treating the support of the 8688 as a low > priority, since they have already designed in the 8686 part. > My team is planning to support the 8686 driver, along with > the module supplier that is working with the customer. > > So we do not have any nea

RE: Moblin Kernel & Driver Status

2007-11-29 Thread Rhoads, Rob
Tony Espy wrote: > Rhoads, Rob wrote: >>>> SDIO >>>> >>>> No changes to the SDIO patches since last status report. We're in >>>> the process of integrating Marvell's GPL release of the 8688 WLAN >>>> + BT drivers.

RE: Moblin Kernel & Driver Status

2007-11-29 Thread Rhoads, Rob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Please find comments inline. > > On 11/29/07, Rhoads, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> PSB C0 HW Support >> = >> We finally received C0 HW. Jacob is currently root causing the Local >> APIC Ti

Moblin Kernel & Driver Status

2007-11-28 Thread Rhoads, Rob
PSB C0 HW Support = We finally received C0 HW. Jacob is currently root causing the Local APIC Timer issue that requires the kernel boot param nolapic_timer to avoid a boot hang issue. SDIO No changes to the SDIO patches since last status report. We're in the process of integr

Moblin Kernel & Driver Status

2007-11-14 Thread Rhoads, Rob
PSB C0 HW Support = No change from last week. We're still waiting for C0 HW. SDIO We've updated and re-sync'd our SDIO patches with Pierre Ossman's latest code. These patches have been committed to our moblin kernel git tree but not yet released into the gaston repository.

PSB Gfx Drivers and libexa

2007-11-08 Thread Rhoads, Rob
I took the action item in our weekly meeting to track down what's going on with the Gfx driver and libexa. Here is what I found out... The latest version of the PSB Gfx driver requires that libexa be at v2.2 to support 2-D acceleration. PSB Gfx driver will still work on a system w/ libexa v2.1, b

Moblin Kernel & Driver Status

2007-11-07 Thread Rhoads, Rob
PSB C0 HW Support = We're still waiting for C0 HW. We were able to borrow a few cycles on another team's C0 platform to test our basic enabling patches. We needed a slight modification to the HD Audio patch to (see http://www.moblin.org/repos/?p=projects/kernel-mid.git;a=commitdiff;

RE: Disk corruption after power is removed

2007-10-03 Thread Rhoads, Rob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We are consistently seeing an issue when systems are powered > down where the disk image, installed or USB live, can no > longer boot properly. We are definitely seeing this on the > Compal design and on the Crownbeach. I cannot say I hve seen it on > the Q1s. > > Is an

RE: Using a Gutsy Install CD directly on Menlow-Crown Beach system

2007-08-16 Thread Rhoads, Rob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If the -generic kernel will work on Crown Beach, then it ought to > work OK. If it got as far as the middle of the install, then the > problems are likely minor (or hardware-related?). > Below is the info I have on where it broke during the install: Rose, James wrote:

RE: Meeting reminder - today at 1600 UTC

2007-08-16 Thread Rhoads, Rob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 8/16/07, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Please also post your spec status updates to this list before the >> meeting starts so we can have a short meeting instead of a two-hour > > Status of two specs: > - mobile-kernel > - mobile-thermal-optimisat

RE: Using a Gutsy Install CD directly on Menlow-Crown Beach system

2007-08-15 Thread Rhoads, Rob
Bryce Harrington wrote: > If this is considered an important use case, this might be > something to > work towards for Gutsy+1, but I think it may be too late in the cycle > for Gutsy. > That's what I'm wondering, is there a real demand for this usage scenario? I'm not sure there is enough deman

Using a Gutsy Install CD directly on Menlow-Crown Beach system

2007-08-15 Thread Rhoads, Rob
Will it ever be possible to take the Gutsy Install CD and use it to install the full Gutsy directly on a Menlow (e.g. Crown Beach) platform's hard disk drive? This is a different usage scenario from using a Menlow image created with moblin image-creator. The reason I ask is that I've got an engin