Re: [PATCH 0/3] olpc-battery: add properties needed by UPower

2010-12-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 16:43 -0800, Andres Salomon wrote: Given that OLPC machines out there currently have broken battery information with UPower and friends, I think that the patches should be applied. Doing stuff in the EC or device-tree may be done in the future, but even after it's

Re: [PATCH 1/3] olpc-battery: add support for CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN

2010-12-10 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 23:05 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: + + switch (tech.intval) { + case POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY_NiMH: + switch (mfr) { + case 1: /* Gold Peak */ + val-intval = 300*.8; + break; +

Re: [PATCH 1/3] olpc-battery: add support for CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN

2010-12-10 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 16:38 -0800, Andres Salomon wrote: It there is, it's not at all clear. The values are fetched from the EC, which get them from the EEPROM. If the EC knows them, can't we ask the EC rather than pulling numbers our of our arse in the kernel? The DT has a battery entry,

Re: OLPC does end run around IP addresses

2010-01-13 Thread David Woodhouse
). Whereas what shows up in the XO Neighborhood View (and in 'olpc-xos') appears to ignore standards-compliance. Surely all your machines can communicate quite happily using IPv6 link-local addresses? Why this fascination with Legacy IP? -- David WoodhouseOpen Source

Re: OLPC does end run around IP addresses

2010-01-13 Thread David Woodhouse
NOT looking forward to the day when my refrigerator has its own IPv6 address, and reports to third parties how much beer I have downed. Nothing prevents it from doing that with Legacy IP either :) -- David WoodhouseOpen Source Technology Centre david.woodho...@intel.com

Re: CL1B power distribution

2009-04-26 Thread David Woodhouse
port to which nothing is connected saves no power, right? I don't see the appeal. It was nice that we could stagger the switching on of USB ports, to avoid crashes due to power surges and resulting drops on the power rail. How sure are you that we won't need similar workarounds in CL1B? -- David

Re: [PATCH] cafe_nand: remove busy-wait loop

2008-12-10 Thread David Woodhouse
give a raw mtd0 instead.) No, that's only for mount. -- David WoodhouseOpen Source Technology Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intel Corporation ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: New mesh throughput record?

2008-10-22 Thread David Woodhouse
could sensibly look at moving the actual TX handling back into the TX routines. Carefully. -- David WoodhouseOpen Source Technology Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intel Corporation ___ Devel mailing list

Re: LBA NAND corruption

2008-10-21 Thread David Woodhouse
harder. When something goes wrong inside the device's internal firmware, there really isn't much you can do about it at all. -- David WoodhouseOpen Source Technology Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intel Corporation

Re: LBA NAND corruption

2008-10-21 Thread David Woodhouse
get some of your cycles; I'm just saying that the answer doesn't seem obvious and straightforward.) Now I work for Intel, I hear occasional vague rumours that you found something wrong, but you never actually seem to _tell_ me so... -- David WoodhouseOpen Source

[PATCH 1/3] Use PCI_DEVICE_ID_88ALP01 for CAFÉ chip, rather than PCI_DEVICE_ID_CAFE.

2008-09-03 Thread David Woodhouse
Probably better to use the official designation. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- (Carried in git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/random-2.6.git) drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pci.c |2 +- include/linux/pci_ids.h |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff

[PATCH 2/3] [MTD] [NAND] Define and use PCI_DEVICE_ID_MARVELL_88ALP01_NAND for CAFÉ

2008-09-03 Thread David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- (Carried in git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/random-2.6.git) drivers/mtd/nand/cafe_nand.c |6 +- include/linux/pci_ids.h |1 + 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/cafe_nand.c b/drivers

[PATCH 3/3] Define and use PCI_DEVICE_ID_MARVELL_88ALP01_CCIC for CAFÉ camera driver

2008-09-03 Thread David Woodhouse
Also, stop looking at the NAND controller (0x4100) and checking the device class. For a while during development, all three functions on the chip had the same ID. We made them fix that fairly promptly, and we can forget about it now. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- (Carried

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 09:51 -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: On Jul 21 2008, at 13:39, C. Scott Ananian was caught saying: 2) JFFS2's behavior when the file system is almost full. When it gets almost full, it can spend all its time trying to garbage collect, and you can lose completely (the

Re: NAND out of space crash

2008-07-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 10:29 -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: I can go ahead and apply the existing Nokia patch into the 8.2 kernel as a short-term measure but don't want to arbitrarilly choose a reservation size. Dave, do you have a suggestion as to what percentage should be reserved to keep

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:37 -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: The userspace tool is extremely awkward to use (since it requires the driver modules to be unloaded which in turn makes the identification of devices on the XO even more difficult) I believe there's a way for libusb to unbind the

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:12 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: So why are we doing this with the driver, and not the userspace update tool? Marvell keeps wanting to do firmware update in the driver, and we (David and I at least) keep saying no. If there are issues that prevent the userspace firmware

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:34 -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote: A necessary rectification: Firmware updates from the driver are the only method that works currently. If we want to name one method a disaster, we would have to choose the userspace tool, since it will brick many of your active

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:44 -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote: Please check comment on: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Active_Antenna_Reprogramming#User_Space_Method Where am I looking? The 'has failed twice' claim? That's hardly a decent bug report. Put a coherent report in trac, and we'll look at it.

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:03 -0400, John Watlington wrote: My bad. This is now Trac #7170 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7170 All of the information in this ticket comes from email exchanged with dcbw and dwmw2 when I first discovered it. Didn't we fix that months ago by increasing the

Re: JFFS2 error messages

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 12:13 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: 2008/6/3 Bill Mccormick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A couple of my XOs are reporting what look like FS error messages on boot: [91.463670] JFFS2 notice: (664) check_node_data: wrong data CRC in data node at 0x1ec215f0: read 0x3e7c7e03,

Re: [PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

2008-06-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:28 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: I'm happy to test this out and try to get the userspace tool working again if given: Last time I knew, the userspace tool _was_ working. Although we'd stripped out the support from the kernel driver ages ago and wrote libertas-flash.py,

Re: [PATCH olpc/stable] Rate adaptation configuration via iwconfig.

2008-05-23 Thread David Woodhouse
is great. Acked-By: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- dwmw2 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 07:01 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: Is the firmware multicast address limit the same for every firmware from 5.0.x up to 9? Is it something that people with the firmware dev kit can change with a recompile? Because if it changes between any of the firmware revisions

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 20:48 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: Try it like this... completely untested and hence probably broken in some stupid and minor way, but testing is something for tomorrow, not Sunday night when I'm supposed to be cooking dinner. This version seems to work, and as an added

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:38 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On an SMP host, are you sure we can't end up setting the multicast list simultaneously on the two logical devices? (A: No.) Try it like this... completely untested and hence probably broken in some stupid and minor way, but testing

Re: [PATCH stable] libertas: Extend CMD_MESH_CONFIG to get and set persistent mesh default params.

2008-05-16 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 11:01 -0700, Brian Cavagnolo wrote: This patch is based on a patch from Shailendra Govardhan. It introduces several new iwprivs: {get,set}_bootflag {get,set}_boottime {get,set}_def_chan {get,set}_def_protid {get,set}_def_metid {get,set}_def_meshcap {get,set}_def_meshid.

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 16:15 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008 19:12:27 -0400 Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And FWIW, I like the 80 char limit _except_ when it comes to strings. I don't normally bother about the strings, unless it is obvious that the surrounding

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008 22:59:26 +0100 David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 12:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:20:19 -0400 Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 May

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 19:12 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: Can we come to a consensus for the sake of outside contributors? Rather than telling the cozybit folks one thing, and having checkpatch.pl and CodingStyle claim another (Dave, surely you wouldn't argue against using checkpatch?), can we

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 02:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:44:12 +0100 David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry if that offends you, but making code more readable helps me find real bugs, and that is more important to me than the 80-column rule. Code which

Re: School server stuff

2008-05-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 23:49 -0400, John Watlington wrote: On May 12, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Marcus Leech wrote: A few questions: What driver is required on an ordinary Linux system for the active antennae? [I ask because plugging one in to a hot-off-the-presses F9 system causes said

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-13 Thread David Woodhouse
Shukla and David Woodhouse. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tested by: Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks good, but please don't introduce any more of the 'u8' and 'u32' nonsense. If types are user-visible, we have to use the '__u32' form. If not, we might as well use

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 13:47 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 21:00 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each device maintains its own list of bound multicast addresses. Those lists are merged and purged from duplicate addresses before being sent to firmware. The maximum

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:38 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: And even without that, it doesn't seem to do the right thing. Set IFF_PROMISC mode on one interface, then on the other, then clear it on the first it should remain set in hardware. And AFAICT it doesn't. I'll see if I can make

Re: [PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

2008-05-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 12:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:20:19 -0400 Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:45:39 +0100 David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:38 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: And even

Re: Thin firmware + driver first development release

2008-05-09 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:06 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: Hi, We are happy to announce the first development release of the wireless firmware + driver compatible with the kernel's mac80211 stack. This is a first step towards supporting a soft Access Point (hostap) on the xo, a project in

Re: [Server-devel] Building kernel RPMs with patches from git

2008-05-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 10:06 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: Dennis, David, There is right now something that I am having trouble understanding how it's done - related to kernel packaging. Is there any documentation on how the RH team manages kernels with additional patches? All I can find

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:09 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Ashish comments on #6869: Firmware release - 5.110.22.p9 as follows: Currently firmware 5.110.22.p8/9 does not support more than 8 multicast mac addresses. Is there a possibility that any given point of time there are more than 8

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 10:58 -0400, Ricardo Carrano wrote: Mmm, if the driver says it is 32 and the firmware only allows for 8, we have a problem, don't we? ;-) Indeed. Do we know which versions of firmware support which numbers of addresses? Remember, this driver handles lots of devices, some

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:43 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: Is it possible to associate shared activities with ethernet ports instead of whole multicast addresses? Then we would only need one single multicast address and do the filtering on the ethernet ports (eg IP is port

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:50 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: what's possible? why not? David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:43 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: Is it possible to associate shared activities with ethernet ports instead of whole multicast

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 12:08 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: Dynamic mapping from a single 6-byte address to multiple 16-byte addresses? The other way round. Given an IPv6 multicast address, there exists a MAC address associated with that IPv6 address. When we join the multicast

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 12:01 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: You're not following: Ethernet ports are bytes 12-14 (2 bytes total) on _all_ ethernet frames. IP has nothing to do with this. Instead of looking at the first 6 bytes (destination mac) for a specific multicast address,

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 12:01 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: You're not following: Ethernet ports are bytes 12-14 (2 bytes total) on _all_ ethernet frames. IP has nothing to do with this. Instead of looking at the first 6 bytes (destination mac) for a specific multicast address,

Re: Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

2008-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:19 -0400, Ricardo Carrano wrote: The multicast filter was implemented in 22p8 (with the limit of 8 since them). Is that what you're asking? Then the firmware was just ignoring the MAC list before then, and always implementing the ALLMULTI behaviour? -- dwmw2

Re: Scanning and probe requests

2008-03-06 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 20:09 -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote: It may be possible that NetworkManager is triggering the scannings (any other possibility?). Anyway, why 4 scan commands and how this becomes 2 probe requests? Any ideas? We send multiple scan commands to the firmware for each scan

Re: Wireshark

2008-02-26 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:02 -0500, Ricardo Carrano wrote: 14:43:34 Err file about_dlg.c: line 250 (splash_update): assertion failed: (ul_sofar = ul_count) Aborted (core dumped) We shouldn't be hacking epan/dissectors/register.c directly -- it's autogenerated. If we'd regenerated it

Re: Wireshark

2008-02-26 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 04:37 -0500, John Watlington wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/~wad/wireshark-0.99.7.mesh.patch Has this been submitted to the wireshark developers? I took a quick look through it and removed some whitespace noise, and spotted a change in add_fixed_field() behaviour in the

Re: Serious side effect of #6299 (silencing salut so gabble can connect)

2008-02-17 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:56 -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote: If you don't turn many XOs on at the same time, you won't have salut preventing gabble to work. My fear is that we are complicating things unnecessarily. But we _do_ turn on many XOs at the same time. Hell, we've seen one teacher

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 10:08 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: Yes. The active antennas firmware would need to be slightly altered to start on firmware boot, but the normal XO firmware should certainly be radio-off-until-driver-enabled (by setting IFF_UP or device open). Let us make a clear

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 16:56 -0500, John Watlington wrote: Michail, This would be 3107, right ? 3109 is when we started seeing the auto-update mode. OK, so can we go between 3109 and 3107 in both directions using libertas-flash.py or did the protocol get changed without telling us? We

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 15:50 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: Ideally, we want to just kill the auto-mesh-repeater mode, where boot2 times out after 5 seconds and loads the firmware from the internal flash (which is obviously larger on these devices than on the XO). Can we achieve that just

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:47 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: What is the post-boot firmware flash functionality supposed to apply to, the host-less active antenna? (which is what I heretofore had understood). As Ben says, they're the same thing. If you don't load the firmware within 5 seconds of the

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-17 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 12:32 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: There is an iwpriv eth0 radiooff/radioon IOCTL hook in the firmware which was meant to control the radio power directly - it was removed a few months ago since it wasn't considered to its thing in the proper linux manner. I looked

Outstanding kernel patches

2008-01-14 Thread David Woodhouse
Stuck in tin cans again, I've been looking at building an OLPC kernel based on 2.6.24, starting by going through the diffs between our stable tree and 2.6.22 (on which it's based). Ideally, we should be committing almost nothing directly to our tree -- it should _all_ be going upstream. As much

Re: Outstanding kernel patches

2008-01-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 06:48 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: Actually, I've sent all of my changes into the mainline; I *believe* that things need to go the other way. There were some things I put in which ran afoul of a freeze on the OLPC side. Sounds good to me; I'll just drop any cafe_ccic

Re: Marvell microkernel replacement

2008-01-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 02:30 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: David Woodhouse writes: http://www.csr.com/products/unifirange.htm They claim that that is a 1-chip solution. Is it really? I have no reason to believe otherwise -- why do you ask? Some people make some fairly preposterous claims

Re: Marvell microkernel replacement

2008-01-12 Thread David Woodhouse
http://www.csr.com/products/unifirange.htm -- dwmw2 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Fwd: Dailymotion for XO laptop

2008-01-09 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 19:34 -0700, Rob Savoye wrote: Sigh, I am getting so tired of this issue with codecs... Gnash for the XO is built without support for any proprietary audio or video codecs. Because of the patent laws, the OLPC project (which is based in the US) cannot

Re: Fwd: Dailymotion for XO laptop

2008-01-09 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 20:06 -0700, Rob Savoye wrote: To go along with this, I've been working on a clone of the Adobe Media Server, so we can steam free codecs. Right now you can only do this with icecast, but it doesn't speak the flash protocols, which Gnash now supports. Oooh. Gnash

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-09 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 11:34 -0500, John Watlington wrote: Right now we have a problem with mesh portal discovery. The DHCP procedure currently being used only discovers the nearest mesh portal when it is first run (DHCP_DISCOVER), not when it tries to renew (DHCP_REQUEST). Furthermore,

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-09 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 14:33 -0500, John Watlington wrote: Unsolicited RAs for IPv6 mean that IPv6 isn't the panacea to this problem. It's easy to discover the shortest way out of the mesh (nearest mesh portal), but setting up the larger mesh networkl infrastucture means you also need to

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-09 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 14:43 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: What do you propose to do about it? Throw away pointless engineering into cobbling together some way of making Legacy IP work a bit better? I seriously hope not. Just switch off the Legacy IP, as we should have done months ago, and

Re: jffs zlib tuning

2008-01-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 18:15 +0100, NoiseEHC wrote: This message is primarily written for Bernardo Innocenti but everybody with relevant knowledge is welcomed to give some insight. I have decided two months ago that will write an asm implementation for zlib inflate (decompression) since

Re: New joyride build 1514

2008-01-06 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 01:45 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 12:37:33AM -0500, Build Announcer Script wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1514/ +kernel.i586 0:2.6.22-20071213.7.olpc.807beb7d0b8a49a -kernel.i586

Re: loss of wireless after joyride-1496 update

2008-01-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 22:09 -0800, Dan Krejsa wrote: Attached are the output from 'iwlist scan' and dmesg. 'quibble' is the router I'm trying to connect to. It's a netgear WPN824v2. After collecting these logs, and making another unsuccessful attempt to connect to quibble (i.e. clicking on

Re: loss of wireless after joyride-1496 update

2008-01-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 10:05 -0800, Dan Krejsa wrote: I (perhaps foolishly) updated to joyride-1496, and after rebooting my G1G1 XO cannot connect to my wireless router. After a while, the neigborhood view becomes completely blank. From a terminal, what happens when you run 'iwlist scan'? Can

Re: iwpriv (Was: OLPC News 2007-12-30)

2008-01-01 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 18:10 +, David Woodhouse wrote: An interesting goal would be cleaning up CONFIG_OLPC so that it could be enabled in stock kernels of standard Linux distros. I actually see that as a prerequisite for getting the thing upstream. And the first step along that path

Re: OLPC News 2007-12-30

2007-12-31 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:05 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: I meant the OLPC kernel. I presume that OLPC changes will be offered to mainline in some batch fashion, rather than piecemeal. This particular one is of no upstream value in isolation, as it is utterly dependent on OLPC-specific EC

Re: iwpriv (Was: OLPC News 2007-12-30)

2007-12-31 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 12:56 -0500, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: btw, we still have code in /etc/init.d/olpc-configure that tries to use one of those private ioctls to remap the leds, and outputs errors if they're missing. Is this still needed? Yes, I think so. And I think it probably even

Re: DCON improvements...

2007-12-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:04 +, David Woodhouse wrote: Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately it didn't reach the people it needs to, because for some reason you dropped them from Cc. Please could you check what caused your mailer to misbehave, and remedy that? Btw, it also broke threading

Re: DCON improvements...

2007-12-19 Thread David Woodhouse
Thanks for the feedback, Adam. -- dwmw2 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: multiple MTD partitions

2007-12-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 09:54 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: UBI/UBIFS is too large and difficult to implement their support in XO boot-loader. So I plan to use the following scheme: 1. Have 2 MTD partitions - mtd0 and mtd1. mtd0 is small (say, 10MiB), and has JFFS2 FS. It contains /boot,

Re: something went wrong in the file system

2007-10-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 12:30 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: This sounds a lot like a problem that I was working on yesterday. (for reference: https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4184 ) Can you go on IRC (freenode, #olpc) ? If so, I would like to work with you to see if my latest firmware works around

Re: Using 3rd Party Commercial/Free BIOS With XO Laptops

2007-09-25 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 08:07 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: The fact that the XO has an x86 CPU makes porting OSes and applications easier, That might be true for non-portable operating systems which are bound to x86, but I dispute that it's true for any well-written application. -- dwmw2

Re: Marvell

2007-09-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 06:12 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: There was an alternative libertas driver which uses the device in 'dumb' mode with the kernel's mac80211 stack. Coupled with mesh support in mac80211 that might make a somewhat suboptimal alternative to truly free firmware.

Re: Battery info

2007-09-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 18:54 -0400, Eduardo Silva wrote: who knows how can I get the battery capacity in the latest builds, ex: 4000mAh I don't believe we're given this information from the EC. Perhaps we could manage to work it out though -- Richard? -- dwmw2

Re: profiling the resume path

2007-09-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 04:05 -0400, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: This interrupt scheduled for 233-40ms is what sounds wrong. It should just continue to blaze off the EHCI resume path. ... after 20ms have passed, not almost 200. Ah, right. Sorry, I missed the order of magnitude discrepancy. Are

Re: profiling the resume path

2007-09-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:27 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 04:05 -0400, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: This interrupt scheduled for 233-40ms is what sounds wrong. It should just continue to blaze off the EHCI resume path. ... after 20ms have passed, not almost 200. Ah

Re: profiling the resume path

2007-09-02 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 04:10 -0400, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Note: ohci_pci_resume does msleep 20. Hm. It's just waiting for the hardware to settle, right? Do the resume functions for the devices themselves actually have to wait until this is complete, before they can do anything? It really

Re: profiling the resume path

2007-08-29 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 08:31 -0400, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: What you think is the easier/proper way to postpone this console work to happen after the resume process is finished? It's spending all its time waiting for characters to be sent out a serial port which isn't even going to have anything

Re: GPLv3

2007-07-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 11:00 -0700, Greg KH wrote: Isn't there a concern that the on-board security firmware in XO would constitute tivoization essentially of the same sort that GPLv3 aims to block? Which is one reason the Linux kernel developers do not agree with that part of the GPLv3

Re: HAL battery and ac_adapter

2007-07-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 18:14 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/fedora/7/i386/ Upload the PowerPC version too please; I'd like to test it with the new PMU battery driver too. -- dwmw2 ___ Devel mailing list

Re: System update spec proposal

2007-06-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 18:37 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote: On Jun 27, 2007, at 2:57 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: Nevertheless, it's an accurate description of what happened. Let's agree to disagree. Sounds like a fine plan. As long as we're united on the common goal to drop vserver as soon

Re: System update spec proposal

2007-06-27 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 20:45 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote: On Jun 26, 2007, at 7:23 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: because the people working on the security stuff let it all slide for too long and now have declared that we don't have time to do anything sensible. That's a cutely surreal take

Re: System update spec proposal

2007-06-26 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 15:59 -0400, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: * VServer only appeared in public discussions yesterday or so AFAIK, yet it's apparently already the chosen path for doing the system compartmentalization. It's a short-term hack, because the people working on the

Re: How to obtain serial number in linux

2007-06-20 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 16:52 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote: This is a complete non-sequitur. Remember the bloody mess that was PSN? I remember a lot of noise and pointless paranoia, but no actual _mess_. But I don't own a tinfoil hat -- so maybe someone's controlling my brain to make me not see the