Re: [Trac #155] PCI Pin A needs to be routed to a real interrupt

2006-10-13 Thread Zarro Boogs per Child
#155: PCI Pin A needs to be routed to a real interrupt --+- Reporter: JordanCrouse |Owner: rsmith Type: defect| Status: new Priority: blocker |Milestone: BTest-1 Component:

Re: [Trac #155] PCI Pin A needs to be routed to a real interrupt

2006-10-13 Thread Zarro Boogs per Child
#155: PCI Pin A needs to be routed to a real interrupt --+- Reporter: JordanCrouse |Owner: rsmith Type: defect| Status: new Priority: blocker |Milestone: BTest-1 Component:

Re: [Trac #185] Need better SPI FLASH recovery procedure

2006-10-13 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:26:07 - Zarro Boogs per Child [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would get it down to about a minute, plus the time it takes for the serial downloader to do the rest (about half a minute). If we needed to, we could go even faster. The serial line speed limitation

Re: Linux TCP downsizing

2006-10-13 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Stephen Hemminger wrote: Is there any interest in working out some config options to downsize the Linux TCP stack by eliminating the stuff that doesn't make sense in a simpler environment? Lots of the sysctl parameters, congestion control options, route cache, all

Re: Open Firmware test image available

2006-10-13 Thread Mitch Bradley
James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:03:18PM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: An Open Firmware image for OLPC is available for testing. See http://firmworks.com/linux/OFWtest.html for complete instructions. I've tried ofw-061011-1916 on both of my A-Test boards, and it worked

Open Firmware use on OLPC.

2006-10-13 Thread Jim Gettys
When we say LinuxBIOS in the context of OLPC, we have generally meant LinuxBIOS and some boot loader payload. The boot loader is that program that can load the system into memory; a boot loader needs to be able to talk to the hardware, and implement file systems to be able to read the kernel

Re: Open Firmware use on OLPC.

2006-10-13 Thread Ronald G Minnich
Speaking as the guy who really likes linux as bootloader, and will continue to use it for many platforms as I have for 6 years now, I have really thought a lot about this change from Linux to OFW, and I'm good with it. I still am not sure I'm sold on all the merits (we've seen here that once

Re: Open Firmware use on OLPC.

2006-10-13 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 12:34 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: [...] I think that we, as a group, should now go to the Linux kernel guys and ask them to please, pretty please, put OFW parsing into the PC side of the house -- it's in the PPC and Sun side, has been for years, no reason not to

Re: Open Firmware use on OLPC.

2006-10-13 Thread Jim Gettys
Mitch correctly points out (in private mail) that OFW was always an open standard: the specs were open and multiple implementations existed. So I'm happy to eat crow. As opposed to OpenVMS, (a true misnomer if ever I saw one, and I worked for that company when that screamer was done), OFW was

Re: Open Firmware use on OLPC.

2006-10-13 Thread Mitch Bradley
I tried to tear the ofw image apart, and if the files were compressed with lzma instead of gzip, it all fits in around 220 kbyte, which means that a LinuxBIOS with ofw could fit into any commodety 256k BIOS used in ordenary PC's - so this could really be a lifter for LinuxBIOS aswell.

Re: Open Firmware use on OLPC.

2006-10-13 Thread Mitch Bradley
FirmWorks has done many OFW implementations in 256K, even with the outstanding compression available with LZMA. I meant to say without, not with. D'oh! ___ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Open Firmware use on OLPC.

2006-10-13 Thread Mitch Bradley
We should have the OFW building tools available in a public place within a few weeks. At that point it would be really cool if someone would undertake the conversion to LZMA. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org

Re: Open Firmware use on OLPC.

2006-10-13 Thread Ronald G Minnich
Mitch Bradley wrote: We should have the OFW building tools available in a public place within a few weeks. At that point it would be really cool if someone would undertake the conversion to LZMA. why not just LZMA the whole image? It's running as a single linuxbios payload right? I am

Re: Open Firmware use on OLPC.

2006-10-13 Thread Mitch Bradley
Ronald G Minnich wrote: Mitch Bradley wrote: We should have the OFW building tools available in a public place within a few weeks. At that point it would be really cool if someone would undertake the conversion to LZMA. why not just LZMA the whole image? That makes it a little smaller but

Re: Open Firmware use on OLPC.

2006-10-13 Thread Peter Lorenzen
why not just LZMA the whole image? ofw is like a tar of mostly gzipped files ofw as distributed here - 338 kB that image throught lzma - 300 kB compress idividual files - 225 kB It could make sense to include VSA and .. in this kind of tar like a minifilesystem to avoid duplication of code.

Re: [Trac #72] LinuxBIOS needs to detect the DCON and communicate that information to the kernel

2006-10-13 Thread Zarro Boogs per Child
#72: LinuxBIOS needs to detect the DCON and communicate that information to the kernel --+- Reporter: JordanCrouse |Owner: JordanCrouse Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: blocker