[PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-13 Thread James Cameron
: ) + then ( )( r: ) + mbr-ih close-dev +; + : set-command-line ( -- ) button-check game-key? enable-serial or if ttyS2 SP $set-macro @@ -107,4 +149,5 @@ false value enable-serial boot ; +maximise olpc-fth-boot-me -- 1.7.5.4 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:37:23AM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Richard Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:35 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Grows the second partition so that it takes up all remaining space on the eMMC

Re: Multi-laptop naming scheme for build files

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
an OpenFirmware script and the build images. But the design does mean that file names are a non-issue for deployment. We already use 0, 1 and 2 to mean XO-1, XO-1.5, and XO-1.75, so adding another set of letters seems a duplication. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 07:02:51PM -0400, John Watlington wrote: On Mar 14, 2012, at 6:04 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:37:23AM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Richard Smith rich...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:35 AM

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:33:32PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:29 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 07:02:51PM -0400, John Watlington wrote: On Mar 14, 2012, at 6:04 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:37:23AM

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:20:45PM -0400, John Watlington wrote: On Mar 14, 2012, at 7:29 PM, James Cameron wrote: fs-verify is used after fs-update in factory to ensure that the fs-update was successful. But the factory can use the correct size image (within a few tens of MB

Re: Multi-laptop naming scheme for build files

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
this confusion would be very likely. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-14 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:28:29AM +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:48 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:33:32PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:29 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 14

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-16 Thread James Cameron
, Uruguay Tel: (598) 2601 5773 int.: 2232 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: Some questions about root and olpc logins.

2012-03-16 Thread James Cameron
that I am unaware of it :| ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-16 Thread James Cameron
of an .zd file does not cause any error on the current version of OpenFirmware on XO-1.75, so it can be added now: From 7ed7ac8452da32bce60208558d0e729a4bfe35b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:56:30 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] add resize --- bin

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-16 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:58:05AM +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:58:51AM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: In OpenFirmware, we might either: * do the resize only if the .zd file requests it, (a new ''resize:'' line after ''zblocks-end:''), or This has been written

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-16 Thread James Cameron
to doing the resize in initramfs, because that would delay booting. i think it should be done with the system up and running. i gather it is an interruptible process. daniel notes in #10040 that he will investigate how safe ext4 online resize is. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: 12.1.0 trac milestone organisation (Devel Digest, Vol 73, Issue 25)

2012-03-17 Thread James Cameron
@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-18 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:20:26PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mar 16, 2012 11:03 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Attached is a revised patch, which places the resize: before zblocks-end: with a wrapper to prevent warning. This allows the resize: request to be added

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-19 Thread James Cameron
we can do it in initramfs, can we? that earlier test was on external card. retested today with six units using eMMC, and the resize time for 4GB to 8GB was around 14sec, as you had reported. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing

Re: [PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

2012-03-19 Thread James Cameron
. I've reduced the OpenFirmware change, removing the .zd file resize: verb support, leaving just the new utility command fs-resize. There's no change to fs-update, and no need to change olpc-os-builder. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: How to run sugar on ArchLinux

2012-03-19 Thread James Cameron
was not prvided by any .service files. Expected. sugar-launch is only useful when Sugar is running. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: How to run sugar on ArchLinux

2012-03-20 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 02:04:11AM +0800, lite li wrote: Hi, James Cameron, 1. ?run sugar-emulator, or 2. ?Log out of your desktop, then on the login screen look for a desktop option for Sugar. Both of them not working. Run sugar-emulator, after about 5 seconds, it will exit

Announcing Q4D06 for XO-1.75

2012-03-20 Thread James Cameron
, - decompiler syntax highlighting. [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d06/fs-resize -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing Q3C03 for XO-1.5

2012-03-20 Thread James Cameron
] - common NANDblaster source update, ticket #11696, - consistent help across platforms, - full screen debugger, - decompiler syntax highlighting, [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d06/fs-resize (sic) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Announcing Q2F08 for XO-1

2012-03-20 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2f08 - fix NANDblaster receive bug, ticket #11696, - fix black-boxes regression in autorun-mfg-tests graphical test menu, ticket #11688, - consistent help across platforms, - full screen debugger, - decompiler syntax highlighting, -- James Cameron

Re: [Techteam] Announcing Q4D06 for XO-1.75

2012-03-21 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:10:49AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:11 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: - correction to ARM MMP2 timer reads, Do we need this, and Dilinger's kernel patches, for a good RTC user experience? No. I'm not aware of any

Re: XO1/os31 update-nand issues

2012-03-25 Thread James Cameron
for the end user. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing an OpenFirmware-based Power Log Collector

2012-03-26 Thread James Cameron
these functions have been known to make the corruption far worse, to the point of losing files. Testing of FAT filesystems is especially needed, with an image of the filesystem taken before running the program. Recently verified FAT filesystems have not shown any problem. -- James Cameron http

Re: XO1/os31 update-nand issues

2012-03-26 Thread James Cameron
And yes, this is in the q2f series, though there may have been other changes since. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-26 Thread James Cameron
it? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-03-26 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:41:27PM -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: --- On Mon, 3/26/12, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: From: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org Subject: Re: 12.1.0 devel build 5 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75 To: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com

XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-27 Thread James Cameron
to the existing Open Firmware serial port FIFO queue implementation. Couldn't have made it stable without it. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ \ serial.fth \ usage: \ok fl u:\serial.fth \ok serial \connect cable last \ cable to cable crossover pin map \gnd to gnd

Re: [Sugar-devel] Patch: Mobile dongles

2012-03-27 Thread James Cameron
consumed while the laptop is in suspend. the effect of a depowering on the radio network is negative but minor. an identity slot for the device is held available until the keep-alive is not answered. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel

Re: [Techteam] XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-28 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:50:07AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:52 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: This is a serial terminal implementation for an XO-1.75 using Open Firmware. Allows a laptop to be a host for a target laptop through a crossover cable

Re: [Techteam] XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-29 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:50:07AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:52 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: This is a serial terminal implementation for an XO-1.75 using Open Firmware. Allows a laptop to be a host for a target laptop through a crossover cable

Re: XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-29 Thread James Cameron
I agree with Mitch, the size of it is insignificant. Even without any tuning and integration with existing code, the dictionary only grows by about 2400 bytes for the 5248 byte source file. If you think it will be useful, we can add it. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

2012-03-29 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 02:04:21PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 29.03.2012, at 08:07, James Cameron wrote: I agree with Mitch, the size of it is insignificant. Even without any tuning and integration with existing code, the dictionary only grows by about 2400 bytes for the 5248 byte

Re: Trac slowness diagnosis

2012-03-29 Thread James Cameron
should switch to the text field and benefit from a huge speedup. Will keep an eye on it. I would prefer to switch now. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Trac slowness diagnosis

2012-03-29 Thread James Cameron
... | grep Changes |sed 's/Changes (by //g'|sed 's/)://g'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Trac slowness diagnosis

2012-03-29 Thread James Cameron
, and there are robots out there trained in the account creation business. The accounts are not listed in the administration interface. Every now and then we have a flurry of ticket updates containing advertising links, and we respond by adding a pattern to a BadContent list. -- James Cameron http

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 6 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-04-03 Thread James Cameron
to hear your problems with non-standard system configurations, as these have been valuable in the past for identifying underlying problems. Thanks for testing outside-the-box. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Announcing Q3C04 for XO-1.5

2012-04-03 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q3c04 - close audio device after startup sound to prevent a page fault, - graphical menu fixes, - graphical debugger fixes. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Announcing Q2F09 for XO-1

2012-04-03 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2f09 - debugger fixes, - graphical test menu fixes. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1 to switch back to JFFS2

2012-04-04 Thread James Cameron
+1 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing Q4D09 for XO-1.75

2012-04-08 Thread James Cameron
/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d09/fs-save -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-08 Thread James Cameron
/OLPC_Firmware_q4d09/fs-save -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [support-gang] XO brightness key operation

2012-04-09 Thread James Cameron
or similar, and play with that. It is much easier than opening an XO and changing the wiring. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-11 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:10:16PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 9 April 2012 13:25, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: - add new fs-save command [1] for preparing an image copy of internal ?storage, [1] ?http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d09/fs-save How useful

Re: XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-11 Thread James Cameron
. This would have worked against you. You might modify zhashfs further to write an empty zero block first, then write the remaining blocks, then write the real zero block. What you are seeing is the re-use of the previous installation's partition table against the new installation. -- James

Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:43:02PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: We do not have a program available at the moment for the reverse of fs-copy, Sorry, fs-save. fs-copy was a name used in early development but it was changed to fs-save. The reverse, if written, would be fs-restore. -- James

Re: [Techteam] Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
. For use with laypersons, this method could be placed in a virtual appliance with a UI that separates the components into plugins that can be enabled or disabled. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Customisation using an unsecure bootable USB drive and runin

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
laptops. On secure laptops the USB drive boot script is ignored. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:36:15AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: Sridhar - the changes (and the fix James proposes) apply to the internal organization of the .zd files. So the fix willbe in the OOB toolchain. Applied, #11776. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: XO still bootable with incomplete fs-update

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 06:58:00PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 09:46 +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:36:15AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: Sridhar - the changes (and the fix James proposes) apply to the internal organization of the .zd files. So

Re: Announcing Q3C05 for XO-1.5

2012-04-12 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:31:44AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:43 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Jerry could also write a startup script that does these actions All the startup (or shutdown) scripts I can think of that could return the filesystem

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 7 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-04-17 Thread James Cameron
; previously this value remained static across builds, 4. the rate of green blocks filling grey blocks will be faster, because the number of blocks per square is lower; previously it was higher, and this slowed the display. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Announcing Q4D10 for XO-1.75

2012-04-18 Thread James Cameron
. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [fedora-arm] 12.1.0 devel build 8 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-04-22 Thread James Cameron
the move back to jffs for the XO-1 and the method for installing. Fixed. Feel free to edit the Wiki. OFW help on XO-1 may need to be changed to reflect this. Fixed in svn 2948 and will be included in the next XO-1 release. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [PATCH runin] Port to systemd

2012-04-23 Thread James Cameron
-check systemctl invocation does not transmit the environment. I plan to move most of this to runin-main. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing Q4D11 for XO-1.75

2012-04-24 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d11 - a fix to power consumption test during manufacturing, - a few ext2 filesystem fixes. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration XO-1 with XS

2012-04-26 Thread James Cameron
currently reconnect to work around the problem may be a coincidence, or it might be this same kind of problem. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Determining whether we are doing pretty boot -- in olpc-configure - 12.1.0

2012-04-26 Thread James Cameron
On XO-1.75 we have ttyS2 option passed by olpc.fth if the tick key is held down. Why not add an option that represents the tick key held down and use that for both purposes; enabling serial console and disabling the plymouth mediated display. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Announcing Q2F10 for XO-1

2012-04-30 Thread James Cameron
to use it in Open FIrmware, - fix help to cover copy-nand and update-nand, now that ubifs will not be used in 12.1.0, - avoid overwriting serial terminal emulator display when game keys are used during boot. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [PATCH runin] Port to systemd

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
then touch /runin/quick reboot -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Announcing Q2F10 for XO-1

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Announcing Q2F10 for XO-1

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
that removes UFS partition support, and this _may_ have led to less elapsed time between probe and access. But this does not explain what you saw before the upgrade. The USB drive may respond differently over time due to changes to the flash cells. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
you will solve with this? There might be an alternate solution. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:33:36AM +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: Thanks James for the reply. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:14:26AM +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: Is there an already tested-cum-recommended method, that could

Re: Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
c...@laptop.org http://printf.net/ One Laptop Per Child -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-01 Thread James Cameron
Okay. Take care not to add any when you change all those lines of code. ;-) On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:47:41AM +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: Well.. Hmm.. So that it could mean less (leftover-half-bits) bugs to play with :P Regards, Ajay On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:42 AM, James Cameron qu

Re: Switching to randomly generated hostnames

2012-05-02 Thread James Cameron
with this too. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-03 Thread James Cameron
a custom kernel. 4. http://dev.laptop.org/~kernels/f14-xo1/?C=M;O=D -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing Q3C06 for XO-1.5

2012-05-03 Thread James Cameron
the Power Log Collector, have Open Firmware scripts that read or write the microSD filesystems, or have USB drives with these filesystem types, tickets #11812, #11799, #11787 and #11786, - fix build date time as shown by .built command at ok prompt, -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: expand fs issue(?)

2012-05-07 Thread James Cameron
into the kernel message log. Capture the dmesg output, check that the filesystem has not been resized, and then attach the dmesg output to ticket #10040. Thanks. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: [PATCH runin] Port to systemd

2012-05-09 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:48:31AM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:15 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: It seems to work now. How can I get the serial console back during runin? Try this: mkdir /etc/systemd/system/runin.target.wants ln -sf /lib/systemd

Re: Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-14 Thread James Cameron
Are there any deployments that still want the mesh to work? It might be simpler to pull it out now, given that only XO-1 supports it. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: rpm into .xo

2012-05-15 Thread James Cameron
improvement could be gained by unpacking the RPM and including the files in the .xo instead of the RPM. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: pointer (touchpad) aceleration and threshold too low in 11.3.* builds

2012-05-16 Thread James Cameron
numbers are incorrect. i recall an x server change that caused me to adjust my own xset, without any change to hardware, but i don't know if we experienced that change on XO-1. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: Downgrading XO-1.75

2012-05-16 Thread James Cameron
fine, edit /bootpart/boot/olpc.fth add false to use-fdt? after the first line of the file. That should remove the need to use the command on every boot. If you don't get it working with this, we should next look at a serial console boot log. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: Re: Downgrading XO-1.75

2012-05-17 Thread James Cameron
Good to hear. I've updated a few Wiki pages. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Announcing Q2F11 for XO-1

2012-05-17 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2f11 - fix SD card slot test, ticket #11844, - fix build date time, it was a month out in previous builds, - rebuilt with fixed metacompiler. There is no need to upgrade unless you specifically want to test SD card slot. -- James Cameron http

Announcing Q4D14 for XO-1.75

2012-05-18 Thread James Cameron
output during game key pause. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH powerd] Inhibit suspend while audio device is open

2012-05-20 Thread James Cameron
Reviewed-by: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] #11599 LOW 3-softw: Requesting new TS mode: DEVL

2012-05-21 Thread James Cameron
/runin/commit/?id=86b7b2445ebc23b6f815c47603ce3da414acd540 Richard is thinking about whether or not to keep the battery test. Okay. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Re: Booting OLPC OS 12.1 from USB sticks and SD cards

2012-05-22 Thread James Cameron
to flashing, so no surprise that the symptom is different. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Offtopic: directional antenna for XO-1.75?

2012-05-23 Thread James Cameron
the connectors in the XO to a connector for an antenna. Watch for static discharge. I suggest a yagi style, not to high a gain, otherwise it would be too sensitive to changes in heading of the boat when anchored. (I'm an ex-sailor ... there's no large bodies of water out here). -- James Cameron

Re: en_GB in OLPC OS 12.1.0

2012-05-24 Thread James Cameron
is necessary. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] First impressions of a new XO user

2012-05-24 Thread James Cameron
of having to tell people on IRC not to read the rest of the page, and made a different page with only the XO-1 installation section on it: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.3.0/Installation/XO-1 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: XO battery/performance

2012-05-27 Thread James Cameron
G'day, Your test script is a good test for scrolling performance in Terminal, thanks. I don't agree with the implications you have drawn though. I agree that the scrolling hesitations would ruin the test ... because if the bash process is blocked the counter would not increase. -- James

Open Firmware wildcard characters

2012-05-28 Thread James Cameron
by the dir command will be the file chosen for other commands. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: XO-1 SD card access during boot-up

2012-05-30 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:08:40AM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org writes: The XO-1 SD card slot power supply circuit does not have a discharge clamping function, and so when the firmware or software turns off the power to the slot, the voltage falls slowly

Re: XO-1 SD card access during boot-up

2012-05-30 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 03:14:49AM -0400, John Watlington wrote: On May 30, 2012, at 2:04 AM, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:08:40AM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: Or is a software reset (i.e. CMD0) insufficient for reinitialisation in Linux? (The standard suggests [2

Re: [support-gang] Does Collection Stick work with 11.3.0 ?

2012-05-30 Thread James Cameron
That's odd. I didn't think the collection stick software needed to reach into the filesystem to get at the operating system. So an operating system dependency is confusing. What firmware versions have you tried it with? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [support-gang] Does Collection Stick work with 11.3.0 ?

2012-05-30 Thread James Cameron
is not secured ... so hold down the X game key during boot and this will temporarily secure it, 2. the filesystem on the stick is not readable by the newer firmware version supplied with 11.3.0 ... please check the filesystem with Linux dosfsck, Mac OS X Disk Utility, or Microsoft Windows scandisk, -- James

Re: [support-gang] Does Collection Stick work with 11.3.0 ?

2012-05-31 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 02:56:19PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: There are a couple of reasons why the XO ignores the stick and boots normally: 1. the laptop is not secured ... so hold down the X game key during boot and this will temporarily secure it, Nathan explained in private mail

Re: Turtle Art sensor xo 1.75 range voltage

2012-06-01 Thread James Cameron
, there is the microphone bias supply, DC mode switch and the codec. All these are under software control. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Re: Turtle Art sensor xo 1.75 range voltage

2012-06-01 Thread James Cameron
that to someone else to confirm. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Recent XO-1 OFW had difficulty reading USB stick

2012-06-01 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 09:58:09PM -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: p.s. I also tried q2f11jb.rom - and nearly bricked the XO-1 (I do not have security deactivated). I'm curious, why do you have security enabled? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Announcing Q4D16 for XO-1.75

2012-06-06 Thread James Cameron
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d15 - support for 1 GHz processors, - warn if TS tag is not SHIP, to provide an explanation why newly delivered spare boards do not boot, - left rocker-key automatic test menu reworked, several usability changes. -- James Cameron http

Re: [OLPC-AU] Testing Summary, Auckland - 26 May 2012

2012-06-07 Thread James Cameron
be the same as the response to HOW DO YOU MAKE BABIES? or WHERE DO BABIES COME FROM? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Announcing Q4D16 for XO-1.75

2012-06-08 Thread James Cameron
2012-06-08 23:41:32 UTC 910 MHz is displayed even though the processor is running at 800 MHz. This should be fixed in Q4D17 or Q4D18. On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:38:05AM +1000, James Cameron wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q4d15 - support for 1 GHz processors, - warn if TS tag

Re: 12.1.0 devel build 13 released, for the XO-1, XO-1.5 and XO-1.75

2012-06-08 Thread James Cameron
For your interest, os13 for XO-1.75 contains firmware Q4D16, which incorrectly displays the processor core frequency. The core continues to run at 800 MHz even though it may show as either 910 MHz or 800 MHz. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2012-June/035324.html -- James Cameron http

Re: XO battery/performance [Devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 4]

2012-06-10 Thread James Cameron
of those keys. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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