Greetings from cloudy Shanghai! We are completing the XO-1.5 C1 bringup at QSMC, and it is going OK.
Mitch Bradley, Richard Smith and Paul Fox spent the last two and a half weeks working on getting the manufacturing tests integrated into Open Firmware. This both gives us more control over the testing and run-in phases, and builds these tests into the laptop for use throughout the life cycle. They have both pulled out significant amounts of hair trying to reverse engineers the details of communication with the Quanta manufacturing infrastructure. We ran half the laptops through assembly yesterday to flush out any final problems, and expect to run the remaining laptops tmw. Overall, 100 laptops are being built, with 45 going to Cambridge for serious testing over the next month. Hardware-wise, we've run into some interesting bugs but in the end they were caused either by simple manufacturing mistakes (programming the pick&place to drop a resistor where a cap. should be) or by known flaws discovered after the C1 motherboard was released to manufacturing. We will be making one more motherboard, C2, to fix a number of remaining small problems. C2 will be the one entering mass production. I'd like to express thanks to members of the OLPC software team around the world for pulling together the software releases which make the hardware actually work. We are also grateful to the Quanta team, including Gary Chiang (THE expert on XO hardware), Arthur Huang (project manager), Beckham Chen (EE), and Wei-Heng Lin (test software). Cheers, wad _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel