Oops bad cut and paste of the code below ... better to just go look at his script. Line 5 should say run not pristine. :-)
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Kevin Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this might be the same issue, if not, please forgive: > > On all of our deployed XO 1.0 machines, immediately after reflashing, we > run one of Mavrothal's scripts that pretty much removes everything from that > directory on the XO 1's. The script saves one file only: USB8388.bin If > one deletes that file, I believe networking ceases to function. The code he > uses is here: > > mv /versions/pristine/"$OSVER"/lib/firmware/usb8388.bin > rm -rf /versions/pristine/"$OSVER"/lib/firmware/* > mv usb8388.bin /versions/pristine/"$OSVER"/lib/firmware/ > mv usb8388.bin /versions/run/"$OSVER"/lib/firmware/ > rm -rf /versions/pristine/"$OSVER"/lib/firmware/* > mv usb8388.bin /versions/run/"$OSVER"/lib/firmware/ > > The script also removes a bunch of dri/lib,icon 256, and language > versions. Frees up about 60Mb on our machines. His full script, along with > a swap script, and some bad/ugly installs script is in this thread > > http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4965.15 > > O, and most importantly, the USB microscopes and Vernier sensors continue > to work after deleting all those files. I still haven't been able to get a > USB2VGA projector to work on any 11-2 builds even beofre the firmware > removal, so I cant comment on that part. > > Cheers > > KG > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Martin Langhoff < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Daniel Drake <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Thanks for your input. USB VGA and USB storage devices do not draw >> > firmware from Linux, so they would be unaffected. I am fairly sure >> > that the same is true for robotics. >> >> +10 on removal :-) >> >> >> m >> -- >> [email protected] >> [email protected] -- Software Architect - OLPC >> - ask interesting questions >> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first >> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > >
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