New system firmware to test

2008-08-14 Thread Richard A. Smith
I've put up q20117.rom @ http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/q20117.rom People who enjoy testing firmware please do so. If nothing shows up while I sleep then I'll spin a q2e13 .rpm for joyride. The highlights are: * Much faster EC command processing. * Fix for watchdog timeout when doing battery

Re: New system firmware to test

2008-08-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/q20117.rom People who enjoy testing firmware please do so. Did not succeed in installing this. Used 'flash' at the esc_prompt to write it onto my XO. But expected XO to reboot by itself - instead the power light went off, and I had to manually press the power

Re: New system firmware to test

2008-08-14 Thread Richard A. Smith
Mikus Grinbergs wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/q20117.rom People who enjoy testing firmware please do so. Did not succeed in installing this. Used 'flash' at the esc_prompt to write it onto my XO. But expected XO to reboot by itself - instead the power light went off, and I had to

Re: New system firmware to test

2008-08-14 Thread Richard A. Smith
Joel Stanley wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People who enjoy testing firmware please do so. My touchpad was unusable. B3, 703. If I was lucky, I could get the cursor to move ~5cm every minute (most of the time it didn't move). I tried

Re: New system firmware to test

2008-08-14 Thread Jim Gettys
Joel, Please request an MP system via the developer's program. In fact, this is true for anyone who got prototypes from us that doesn't yet have an MP system. Having good developers testing against old hardware doesn't help testing. - Jim On Thu, 2008-08-14 at

Developer program (Re: New system firmware to test)

2008-08-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Aug 2008, at 17:20, Jim Gettys wrote: Please request an MP system via the developer's program. In fact, this is true for anyone who got prototypes from us that doesn't yet have an MP system. Having good developers testing against old hardware doesn't help testing.