For the OpenFirmware hackers-to-be

Turns out two famous Forth books are now freely available under a Creative Commons license: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2316 Enjoy, -- Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GPG: 0x147C722D ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: Inflation

How about getting some of this in trac, assigned to the proper components? Thanks greatly for the work! - Jim On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 17:27 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Build JFFS2 size - 465183MB 466203MB

Re: Inflation

On 7/4/07, Pádraig Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example there are many duplicate py[oc] files, and /usr/share/activities/TamTam.activity/Resources/Sounds/lab[1-6] all contain the same data (wasting 600K alone). The current proposal for downloading/updating activities on the XO should end

can't get wireless working on B2 updated to 406

I followed the instructions on this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Autoreinstallation_image and updated a B2 device to OLPC Build 406. The XO starts up OK but there appears to be no wireless network. When starting up after: Setting hostname localhost.localdomain completes successfully

Re: can't get wireless working on B2 updated to 406

Hi, raidautorun: failed to open /dev/md0: No such device or address That's normal. from a root shell ifconfig only lists the lo interface. That's bad. Please open a bug on http://dev.laptop.org/query and attach the file created by dmesg file. You might try removing all power (AC

Re: can't get wireless working on B2 updated to 406

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 15:01 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, raidautorun: failed to open /dev/md0: No such device or address That's normal. from a root shell ifconfig only lists the lo interface. That's bad. Please open a bug on http://dev.laptop.org/query and attach the file

Re: Python pyc/pyo (Was: Inflation)

Mike C. Fletcher wrote: My understanding is that slowdown is seen due to large number of stats during module import. I made a few experiments and it turns out that, on a slow B2, it takes only 182ms to stat all the 2500 files in /usr/lib/python2.5. I also analyzed what happens when we do

Re: can't get wireless working on B2 updated to 406

At 3:01 PM -0400 7/6/07, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, from a root shell ifconfig only lists the lo interface. That's bad. Please open a bug on http://dev.laptop.org/query and attach the file created by dmesg file. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1969 You might try removing all power (AC and

Re: can't get wireless working on B2 updated to 406

At 5:48 PM -0400 7/6/07, Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 15:01 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, raidautorun: failed to open /dev/md0: No such device or address That's normal. from a root shell ifconfig only lists the lo interface. That's bad. Please open a bug on

pivot_root on boot

Quick recap of early boot: a) open firmware checks the status of the foo key, and signature-checks and boots either the primary or the backup kernel, passing fs=primary or fs=backup on the kernel command-line. b) an initramfs script looks for an activation record in /, and initiates activation