XO-1.5 B2 bringup

2009-09-15 Thread John Watlington
The XO-1.5 bringup is proceeding smoothly. At this time, Mitch is working on streamlining the production test process and integrating the production test code into Open Firmware and our Linux releases. This will eliminate the need for OLPC to continuously support Quanta's separate production

Re: XO-1.5 B2 bringup

2009-09-15 Thread James Cameron
Congratulations, and well done. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

OFW access from linux

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Fox
on the XO, openfirmware stays resident when linux runs, and is accessible via an API specified in arch/x86/kernel/ofw.c. i've just pushed a commit to our 2.6.30 kernel branch that adds a sysrq hook (SysRq-y) for starting (returning to?) the resident OFW command line interface. when invoked, you

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-15 Thread Raul Gutierrez Segales
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 15:59 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Raul Gutierrez Segales r...@rieder.net.py wrote: But how will a non-root user be able to read the backup files at /library/users give the following permissions: Look at the acls for a hint. Apache

Re: XO-1.5 B2 bringup

2009-09-15 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:30 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Congratulations, and well done. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:42:46AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: on the XO, openfirmware stays resident when linux runs, and is accessible via an API specified in arch/x86/kernel/ofw.c. i've just pushed a commit to our 2.6.30 kernel branch that adds a sysrq hook (SysRq-y) for starting (returning

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:42:46AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: on the XO, openfirmware stays resident when linux runs, and is accessible via an API specified in arch/x86/kernel/ofw.c. i've just pushed a commit to our 2.6.30 kernel branch that adds a sysrq hook (SysRq-y) for

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-15 Thread John Gilmore
there's no SysRq key on the XO keyboard, so you'll need to use a break on the serial console to invoke it... Please. If you're going to put this hook in, which I think is a great idea, at least make it work on the standard hardware! And when the operating system is not very responsive.

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 15.09.2009, at 23:21, John Gilmore wrote: there's no SysRq key on the XO keyboard, so you'll need to use a break on the serial console to invoke it... Please. If you're going to put this hook in, which I think is a great idea, at least make it work on the standard hardware! And when

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Fox
john wrote: there's no SysRq key on the XO keyboard, so you'll need to use a break on the serial console to invoke it... Please. If you're going to put this hook in, which I think is a great idea, at least make it work on the standard hardware! And when the operating system is not

soas63xo impressions

2009-09-15 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; I'm sharing my experiences. Ran with soas63xo (booted from nand) on my XO-1. Many of the difficulties with previous SoaS builds were still present. My Settings - DateTime - as soon as (to move the selection off UTC to my timezone) I pressed (cursor

Re: soas63xo impressions

2009-09-15 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Mikus, On 16 Sep 2009, at 01:37, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: One less nice thing for me is the new toolbar design, as exemplified in Turtle_Art. It was nice to see the Title always in the toolbar - to remind what am I on this screen for. Now that the user needs to hover (a particular

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-15 Thread Mitch Bradley
It is gratifying that so many people like the idea of being able to zap back into OFW from Linux - especially since I got such intense pushback when I first proposed leaving OFW resident on OLPC. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: soas63xo impressions

2009-09-15 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Regarding revised toolbar design: Putting the user coloured activity icon in as the first icon is also a nice design win regarding identifying the activity you're looking at (and whose it is). I'm not your typical user - I usually have more than 100 Activities installed. You may remember

Re: [Server-devel] [PATCH] create_user: fix handling of parameters - fixes empty authorized_keys

2009-09-15 Thread Hamilton Chua
Yay! Thanks Martin ! :-) On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 12:08 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: We need doublequotes for interpolation. Single quotes look more symmetrical in if [ $a == 'x' ] constructs but we want the left side to be interpolated and the right side to be taken literally. ---

Re: [Server-devel] [PATCH] create_user: fix handling of parameters - fixes empty authorized_keys

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/15 Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org: We need doublequotes for interpolation. Single quotes look more symmetrical in if [ $a == 'x' ] constructs but we want the left side to be interpolated and the right side to be taken literally. oops, I ran into the same issue with my own patch but

Re: [Server-devel] [PATCH] create_user: fix handling of parameters - fixes empty authorized_keys

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/15 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: oops, I ran into the same issue with my own patch but looks like I completely forgot to send a fixed one. Thanks for taking care of that! Bad boy! Question: have you got

Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I then tried to create a F9 chroot using mock, with the intention of running revisor or pungi inside. This doesn't work, because mock creates a v9 berkeley DB inside the chroot, but the libraries/apps inside the chroot only

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-15 Thread Rodolfo D.
Hello: Interesting task. You aren't telling us much about your setup -- specifically, how is the network conn between your XSs and your backup server? We're using the same ISP with public IPs on each schoolserver.. we rsync + ssh to a remote internet server so their not on the same network

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Raul Gutierrez Segales r...@rieder.net.py wrote: But how will a non-root user be able to read the backup files at /library/users give the following permissions: Look at the acls for a hint. Apache can already read those files :-) But your post points out an

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
+1, except not just PDFs. We have much better presentation formats, such as Scratch, Turtle Art Portfolio, and Etoys presentation objects. On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Thank Martin! Your email really helped me. Here is my current thinking on

Re: [Server-devel] Troubles running F9 mock chroot under F11

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/15 Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca: Are you just adding rpms to the install media? Or are you trying something more difficult? I have a process in mind if you're just adding rpms to the mix... Just adding RPMs would be enough, but also we're customizing the kickstart file a little.