Re: [support-gang] is rolling back firmware dangerous? (on XO-1s especially)

2014-02-18 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:04:52AM -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: Thanks for this detailed update.  If i may summarize,  if one is using a 12 or 13 O/S on any architecture, I'm assuming the recommended f/w is the most current,  whether on XO-1, 1.5, 1.75 or 4.  If running 11, well, one is on their

Re: [support-gang] is rolling back firmware dangerous? (on XO-1s especially)

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin Gordon
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:25 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:04:52AM -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: Thanks for this detailed update. If i may summarize, if one is using a 12 or 13 O/S on any architecture, I'm assuming the recommended f/w is the most

Re: [support-gang] is rolling back firmware dangerous? (on XO-1s especially)

2014-02-18 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 05:16:31PM -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: Well, as much as it would be fun to throw Mr. Holt under the bus on this, I must do the mea culpa. :-)  I volunteered to lend Tim and him a slew of XO-1's to do AP testing, but I asked for him to confirm that if I had to roll back

is rolling back firmware dangerous? (on XO-1s especially)

2014-02-07 Thread Adam Holt
I used to do this all the time while testing XO-1s with different firmwares, but want to check if the _process_ of rolling back firmware on XO-1s is dangerous to the machine in general: 1) Are there risks to the _process_ of rolling back XO-1 firmware, EG from q2f19 to q2e48 (Release 11.3.0) as

Fwd: [support-gang] is rolling back firmware dangerous? (on XO-1s especially)

2014-02-07 Thread Adam Holt
From: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [support-gang] is rolling back firmware dangerous? (on XO-1s especially) To: Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \help AT laptop.org\ support-g...@lists.laptop.org Cc: Adam Holt h...@laptop.org

Re: [support-gang] is rolling back firmware dangerous? (on XO-1s especially)

2014-02-07 Thread Kevin Gordon Gmail
From: Adam HoltSent: Friday, February 7, 2014 20:12To: Devel's in the DetailsSubject: Fwd: [support-gang] is rolling back firmware dangerous? (on XO-1s especially)From: James Cameron qu...@laptop.orgDate: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:17 PMSubject: Re: [support-gang] is rolling back firmware