On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 16:30 -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: > Ooops I think I sent this to the wrong thread before. Sorry for any > inconvenience. > > I seem to remember that the signed builds would automatically update > the > firmware on machines when using the game-key-release update method, > assuming that one had the power cord plugged in. > > Using the current 852 build, the firmware on the XO 1.5 is not being > upgraded > from q3a48 to q3a50 (which is the recommended fw listed on the wiki). > Not a > big deal, as one can flash using the X-release boot method to the Ok > prompt, and then using > the USB stick where the .dot-rom file sits in the /boot directory. > > And, I dont expect it to be there using the 35x fs-update method, but > I was > just wondering whether this auto-firmware update feature for > 'game-key-release' installs of signed builds is now a thing of the > past, a > figment of my iimagination, bad memory, or > whether the fw in the pack is maybe still q3a48. > > Cheers, > > KG
I've played around with the bootfw rpm, altering the install path to reflect where /boot really is on the filesystem while booted up. This has the advantage of being able to use rpm/yum to stage the upgrade of the firmware. Providing you have the power cable connected, once OFW looks in /boot it will look for bootfw.zip. I'm just putting the zip in the correct location to be found. I have a test re-roll of q3a50 available from: http://download.laptop.org.au/XO/F11/10.1.2/xoau-firmware the diff: http://download.laptop.org.au/XO/F11/10.1.2/tools/path.diff and what I used for the rpm: http://download.laptop.org.au/XO/F11/10.1.2/tools/bootfw.diff If you have net access and would like to test, all on one line: rpm -Uvh http://download.laptop.org.au/XO/F11/10.1.2/xoau-firmware/bootfw-q3a50-2.unsigned.i586.rpm try it out if you like, Jerry _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
