Re: soas63xo impressions

2009-09-16 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:37:15PM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; I'm sharing my experiences. Thanks for reporting your experiences. You're good at finding builds that aren't even announced :). Ran with soas63xo (booted from nand) on my XO-1. Many of

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-16 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:18:17AM +0800, Mitch Bradley wrote: 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. Why? Security reasons? Martin

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-16 Thread Mitch Bradley
Martin Dengler wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:18:17AM +0800, Mitch Bradley wrote: 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.

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-16 Thread Mitch Bradley
Another objection, now that I think about it, is that some people didn't like the way I made OFW coexist within Linux's virtual address space by injecting a page directory entry at the top of one of Linux's page tables. Admittedly, the solution that I chose is rather brute force, but

XO-1 Mesh support in F11, testing request

2009-09-16 Thread Daniel Drake
untested as I don't have an XO to hand. There are probably a couple of trivial mistakes so testing plus logs/technical investigation/patches would be really helpful all rpms at http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090916/ cheers Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: OFW access from linux - kgdb

2009-09-16 Thread John Gilmore
it sounded like there was also some thought that the emphasis should be on tools, like kgdb, which can be more general purpose, and more widely used and maintained. to which i'd say, the more the merrier -- i'd love to use kgdb regularly, but it requires a second machine, and it ties up

Re: XO-1.5 B2 bringup

2009-09-16 Thread Tiago Marques
Great news! Keep up the great work. Best regards, Tiago Marques On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:02 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: 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

OLPC Slackware 13.0 ready for D/L

2009-09-16 Thread supat
at http://AhatThailand.org/OLPC/ To install: copy-nand u:\slak-13.img good luck, zxc555 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OFW access from linux

2009-09-16 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org 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

Re: [Server-devel] Attempting to re-install jabber component of XS without re-installing the entire server

2009-09-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Daniel Bennett dant...@gmail.com wrote: 3) Any other newbie level recommendations? If the XS is on 0.5.x, and you can make a backup, I would strongly recommend yum --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing update which will bring updates from the Fedora-9 series (good!)

[Server-devel] timestamps on backups

2009-09-16 Thread Hamilton Chua
Hello, I'm not sure if anybody has noticed this yet but after doing a backup, it seems the datestamps on the backup page are wrong. For instance, after a recent backup the backup page in moodle says that the last backup was 4 hours ago even though monitoring the cron logs show that it has just

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

2009-09-16 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 10:32 +0545, Daniel Drake wrote: 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

Re: [Server-devel] timestamps on backups

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Hamilton Chua hamilton.c...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if anybody has noticed this yet but after doing a backup, it seems the datestamps on the backup page are wrong. We