Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails -SUCCESS

2009-02-16 Thread David Leeming
Martin, All solved - I did not read all that Pia has written on the XS installing server wiki page - it's all there. I missed the bit about editing ks.cfg Well done Pia and sorry to be too impatient to follow instructions :) I now have 0.5.1 running on the eBox David Leeming Technical Ad

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration problem again 0.5.1

2009-02-17 Thread David Leeming
Good Martin, how many with 0.6 cater for? When is the anticipated release date/month/quarter? David > EVEN WITH MULTIPLE APs, THE LIMIT IS 60? WE HAVE THREE SCHOOLS WITH 100 > PUPILS AND TEACHERS EACH. THEY WOULD BE UNLIKLEY TO HAVE ALL 100 CONNECTED > 100% OF THE TIME. DO YOU T

Re: [Sugar-devel] announce: alternate power management

2009-03-13 Thread David Farning
Very cool! How well will this integrate with the power management systems other distros are using? Can it become a 'Value Added' for other netbook manufacturers? david On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:33 PM, wrote: > hi -- > > i had an itch that needed scratching,

Re: [Sugar-devel] announce: alternate power management

2009-03-15 Thread David Farning
several questions about how XO-specific hardware will be > supported going forward.  i assume the sugar folks would rather > not continue carrying hardware specific key-bindings for rotation > and brightness for instance, but i don't know what their current > thoughts are. On the o

Re: [Sugar-devel] I hear you

2009-03-31 Thread David Farning
y XO.  It was fully functional > and reliable, but the GUI is really ugly also by the standards of a > traditional desktop. FWIW, Asterisk is interesting in working with Sugar Labs:) If someone is able to champion this, it is likely that we could turn this into a partnership with digum.

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Gadget on XS

2009-04-01 Thread David Farning
ust URLs), then I shall not bother you anymore with them. Please try to stay polite. English is not the native language for many of the participants in Sugar Labs. Many times I prefer to send links rather than try to make people understand my mangled use of written language. david > > -

Re: CL1B power distribution

2009-04-26 Thread David Woodhouse
we won't need similar workarounds in CL1B? -- David WoodhouseOpen Source Technology Centre david.woodho...@intel.com Intel Corporation ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] FoodForce II Beta Release

2009-05-09 Thread David Farning
blems. By leveraging the Sugar Platform, you can extend your reach to help similar projects with similar needs around the world. And the naysayers said, "Scratching your own itch won't work to motivate contributors on an educational project." Very Cool. david > Our website

Re: [IAEP] OLPC Volunteer Infrastructure Group Meeting: [Today]

2009-06-04 Thread David Farning
Dogi, Can you post a link to the logs? david On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Stefan Unterhauser wrote: > The Volunteer Infrastructure Group (/gang) Meeting is today (June 2th) > at 4pm (EST) > > The Volunteer Infrastructure Group is a team of Volunteer Sysadmins > who help ma

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities (was Re: ASLO Suggestion)

2009-06-17 Thread David Farning
that future and existing deployments and deploying organizations use it by default. If any specific deployment organization wants to retain the wiki base update mechanism it is up to them to maintain it. david david On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:53 AM, S Page wrote: > [I removed some cc'd lists

Re: ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-17 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi David, > >   > The Sugar Labs Activities Portal seems to be holding up pretty >   > well under load.  My suggestion would be to start phasing out the >   > activities pages on w.lt.o > > Are you just talking a

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-17 Thread David Farning
ioning,_Update_and_Compatibility david > But it may make more sense in the long run > to have individual organizations maintain lists that point to the > proper versions of activities that they want included/updated rather > than centralizing it on WLO or WSLO. > > Apologies for all the acronyms

DNS

2009-08-08 Thread David Leeming
cat "${file}" | grep -c "${ip}"` if [ ${result} -eq 0 ] then echo "nameserver ${ip}" >> "${file}" fi } /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop /sbin/ifconfig eth0 [Static IP] netmask [mask] up /sbin/route add default gw [Gateway IP] a

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-17 Thread David Farning
months. At the same time, deploying organisations will need to cluster around less frequent stable releases to share the cost of long term support. david On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > I asked once before, but got no answer: > > | When the XO-1.5 on F11 so

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-18 Thread David Farning
, it sends a string identifing which version of Sugar is running on the client. ASLO then responds by sending a link to the most appropriate update for a the given version of Sugar which the client is running. david > mikus > > ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] erasing the journal and config

2009-08-27 Thread David Farning
; voluntarily from the borrowers. > > I'm going to stick with the "run a script" routine for now. The process of creating an activity and a control panel plug-in are nearly identical. The control panel is were system admin _should_ occur and plug-ins provide a nice framewo

Extracting and analysing journal data

2009-08-30 Thread David Leeming
done by pulling the data off a representative sample of XOs and then being able to analyse it with spreadsheet or database tools. Please can anyone advise if they know the best way to do this. David Leeming Honiara, Solomon Islands, South Pacific

Re: [Sugar-devel] Smile activity version 1

2009-09-19 Thread David Farning
since June. Congratulation on the baby and starting something pretty cool. david On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hi Tony, > Sorry for taking so long to respond to this one. > I had a similar problem in Colors! and solved it by adding a timer event > while

Re: OLPC does end run around IP addresses

2010-01-13 Thread David Woodhouse
.254.0.0/16, > and vice versa). 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 Woo

Re: OLPC does end run around IP addresses

2010-01-13 Thread David Woodhouse
inst IPv6 > -- I am 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 Te

Re: [IAEP] Weekly Infrastructure Meeting Reminder

2010-02-09 Thread David Farning
ll be adding a temporary web node at Gnaps to handle the load until the cluster comes online. That should be pretty minor. david On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Stefan Unterhauser wrote: > Infrastructure meeting: > Volunteer Infrastructure Gang, Sugarlabs Infrastructure Team > a

Re: [Server-devel] Fwd: [SoaS] wireless connection school server

2010-03-29 Thread David Leeming
OK so it should work I assume you're using an AP and I am using an AA. Thatb is the only difference as far as I can see. I will try again with a fresh XS and AP and report back... David Leeming -Original Message- From: server-devel-boun...@lists.laptop.org [mailto:server-devel

Re: [GIT PULL] White background with OLPC logo

2007-06-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 09:28 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > these patches make our boot sequence a little more pleasant > in time for B4, and are anyway a desiderable improvement > even after we have the real boot splash. To complete > the effect, I'm also planning to patch X11 to start with >

Re: OLPC battery class

2007-06-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:55 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > Hi, > > I've been looking at adding OLPC battery support into HAL so it can be > used with OHM and the power meter in sugar. Cool, thanks. > Putting it bluntly, the "generic battery class" is a bit of a misnomer, > as it's very OLPC spec

Re: OLPC battery class

2007-06-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 16:29 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > No worries, I'm glad I sent the email before I wrote the HAL code! ;-) Sorry, I thought you were already aware of the new tree. Note the uevent stuff I added recently -- feedback on that would be welcome. I'm about to actually hook it up a

Re: OLPC battery class

2007-06-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 16:57 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > Hmm. I'm not completely convinced (are there any ac adapters that report > > > temperature current or voltage?) > > > > I don't have any. They certainly exist in high-end machines though. And > > even when they _don't_ have the temp/c

Re: OLPC battery class

2007-06-20 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 10:57 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Is there any chance you can stick the code into a new kernel rpm for > > me pls? > > Soon, when I have it working properly... :) http://dev.laptop.org/~dilinger/RPMS/i586/kernel-2.6.22-20070620.4.olpc.70e92d

Re: OLPC battery class

2007-06-20 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:24 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: > http://dev.laptop.org/~dilinger/RPMS/i586/kernel-2.6.22-20070620.4.olpc.70e92d813462a1f.i586.rpm I just committed an untested patch to generate uevents whenever AC or battery is removed or inserted, and whenever the state of cha

Re: Power Mangement Interfaces

2007-06-20 Thread David Brownell
On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > Since OLPC isn't using ACPI, it can be more like embedded Linux, > > and just Do The Right Thing ... create platform devices, etc. :) > > As you know we want user configuration of enabled wakeup events (unlike > embedded platforms where this

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

Re: How to obtain serial number in linux

2007-06-20 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 00:50 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: > > I remember a lot of noise and pointless paranoia, but no actual _mess_. > > A lot of noise and pointless paranoia over something with no practical > benefits and plenty of abuse potential sure as

Re: #1721 NORM Trial-2: Standardize keyboard shortcuts

2007-06-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 11:59 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > Actually, having a cut/copy/paste key as on many pre-PC keyboards > would be a Great thing. Who needs that stuff on the keyboard? It's what the middle button is for. -- dwmw2 ___ Devel ma

Re: Upgrades and image manifests

2007-06-25 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 14:39 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > Does OLPC use selinux or xattrs? Because if so we have to extend the > manifest format. Not yet, but it's likely to in the near future when we ditch the short-term hacks and manage to implement the proper long-term security plan. So it'

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: System update spec proposal

2007-06-26 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. &g

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 commo

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 Devel@li

Re: [PATCH] rtc-cmos: use cmos_rtc_board_info to determine wake_on callback

2007-07-07 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 07 July 2007, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > From my understand ACPI fills a cmos_rtc_board_info with pointers for > wake_on/wake_off callbacks and registers that at dev->platform_data. > > So use that to retrieve the callback pointers. > > Am I missing something? This is retrieved alre

Re: [PATCH] OLPC rtc-cmos support

2007-07-07 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 07 July 2007, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Hi, > > The following patch implements the hooks necessary for OLPC to use the > rtc-cmos driver. This is necessary since we do not want CONFIG_PNP. > > This makes it possible to control rtc wakeup via > /sys/devices/platform/rtc_cmos/power/wa

Re: rtc-cmos not supporting RTC_AIE?

2007-07-07 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 07 July 2007, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > David, > > Is there any reason why programs using RTC_AIE/RTC_ALM_SET ioctls are > unable to arm alarm irq's? The ALM_SET request never did! And I'm pretty sure

Re: cafe_ccic slowness in VIDIOC_S_FMT

2007-07-08 Thread David Woodhouse
than that, and something strange happens. We need to hook that up to an analyser and work out _what_ is happening, unless we've already done so. I've committed this... commit 4ef53002bc09fef121bf3ec2d2faaafc2d6edb85 Author: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun Jul 8 14:3

Re: [PATCH] OLPC rtc-cmos support

2007-07-08 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 08 July 2007, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Like this? Not quite ... > +struct resource rtc_platform_irq = { > + .flags = IORESOURCE_IRQ, > + .start = 8, > + .end = 8, > +}; Unused, right? > +static int olpc_rtc_init(void) ... should be marked __init ... > +{ > + rtc_

Re: rtc-cmos not supporting RTC_AIE?

2007-07-08 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 08 July 2007, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > My point is that RTC_ALM_SET after RTC_AIE_ON works with drivers/char/rtc.c > but not rtc-cmos: > > ret = ioctl(fd, RTC_AIE_ON); > if (ret) { > perror("ioctl RTC_AIE_ON"); > exit(0); > } > >

Re: Hibernate after alarm wakes from STR

2007-07-08 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 08 July 2007, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 12:17 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > > > I think so ... although that's unfortunately another difference > > between the legacy x86-mostly code and the newer RTC framework. > > (sorry for

Re: [PATCH] OLPC rtc-cmos support

2007-07-08 Thread David Brownell
> > > + (void)platform_device_register(&olpc_rtc_device); > > > + > > > + device_init_wakeup(&olpc_rtc_device.dev, 1); > > > > ... do the init_wakeup before registering the device, so > > there can never be confusion about whether a probe() will > > see that part of device config ... > > For som

Re: cafe_ccic slowness in VIDIOC_S_FMT

2007-07-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 15:04 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do we have a coherent explanation of these problems in the datasheet > > and/or errata? Are they planned to be fixed in a future version of the > > CAFÉ

Re: cafe_ccic slowness in VIDIOC_S_FMT

2007-07-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 11:56 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: > Are we sure that the Marvell chip is the source of the problem? The > Omnivision chip could also be affecting the timing. That's possible, although it doesn't quite seem to fit the failure mode. But then, I haven't investigated the failu

Re: cafe_ccic slowness in VIDIOC_S_FMT

2007-07-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 15:04 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > I raised the issue with Marvell early on, but didn't get too far. > They seem to think that it works well enough. Please could you file everything you know about it in trac, if you didn't already? We'll attempt to diagnose it in 1cc. --

Re: add powerbutton and lid platform devices

2007-07-09 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 09 July 2007, Jordan Crouse wrote: > I agree that the default setting for the power button should be to > wake up, but I don't know about the lid. Imagine a scenario where somebody > manually puts the machine to sleep and then shuts the lid. You wouldn't want > the machine to turn bac

Re: Unwanted RPM dependencies

2007-07-10 Thread David Zeuthen
eed to be linked statically anymore; Peter Jones would know. Either way, if you don't expose LUKS encrypted stuff in the UI I guess you can just drop the cryptsetup dep from hal since it will gracefully recover and just throw and error if Crypto.Setup() is called. David _

Re: Eliminating static binaries (Was: Unwanted RPM dependencies)

2007-07-10 Thread David Zeuthen
hat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html - that early user space in Fedora is increasingly moving to dynamic linking; that's a good thing; even better if people remember to kill statically linked binaries :-) David ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

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

Re: Diskless NAND and firmware updates

2007-07-14 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 20:03 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: > Developers may find this useful: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_copy-nand http:\\ ? :) Any chance of fixing that? It's bad enough in filenames but in URLs it's just silly ;) -- dwmw2 ___

Re: Location of Open Firmware BIOS Source code

2007-07-26 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 09:02 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: > It's in Subversion at svn://openbios.org/openfirmware . It's also shadowed into git, for those who don't want to deal with legacy version control systems: http://git.infradead.org/?p=openfirmware.git git://git.infradead.org

Re: JFFS2 file sizes

2007-07-26 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 20:04 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: > Jffs2's compression is OK, but as the block size of the compression > blocks is relatively smaller than a gzipped archive, for large objects > it's less efficient than gzip. > > Dave Woodhouse may be able to give typical numbers (he wrote jf

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: 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 sound

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.

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. > > > > ... a

Re: Marvell

2007-09-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 22:41 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote: > On Sep 10, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > > In the same thread, Ivan said he may have found a full-time person for > > the job (what happened, then?). > > It was put on hold because IP issues weren't worked out, and it > didn

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: 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

font size when running under emulation?

2007-10-05 Thread David Feldman
I just installed the OLPC software in VMWare and Qemu, but the font size is so small that I have trouble reading it. My understanding is that this is an emulation (screen resolution) issue and it'll be a lot larger on the actual OLPC? Is there some way to configure the screen resolution on the

Re: font size when running under emulation?

2007-10-08 Thread David Feldman
ut it always comes up 1024x768. Thanks again, --Dave Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2007, at 21:12 , David Feldman wrote: > >> I just installed the OLPC software in VMWare and Qemu, but the font size >> is so small that I have trouble reading it. My understanding is th

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 arou

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 /boo

DCON improvements...

2007-12-17 Thread David Woodhouse
If we should design a next generation of DCON chip, are there any improvements we should make to it? Adam, do I recall correctly that you had problems hooking it up to X for idle detection? Anything we could do to make that better? -- dwmw2 ___ Devel

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: DCON improvements...

2007-12-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 01:15 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > David Woodhouse writes: > > > If we should design a next generation of DCON chip, are there any > > improvements we should make to it? > > Sure. Bugs #1017 and #1671 could be dealt with. Thanks for the feedback.

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,

Re: closed lists

2007-12-28 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 12:50 -0500, Ivan Krstić wrote: > On Dec 28, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > > Are our spam filters good enough to make our lists > > open for posting by non-members? > > The only spam filter good enough for that is Dave Woodhouse. > Inspecting every e-mail b

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 E

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 ju

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

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'? C

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

Re: loss of wireless after joyride-1496 update

2008-01-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 10:46 -0800, Dan Krejsa wrote: > > David, I'll try your debugging tips next time this occurs, thanks... > Re. the IPv6 RADVD daemon, I don't think the Netgear router supports > that, so I'd have to use another machine; I'll consider it. Th

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 0:2.6.22-20071231.3

Re: New joyride build 1514

2008-01-06 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 13:16 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > I started a irc channel #olpc-admin on freenode if anyone wants to > help with > infrastructure issues feel free to join me there. Please, no more channels on Freenode. Do it on OFTC. -- dwmw2 __

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) sinc

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 redistr

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. Gna

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). Furtherm

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 pr

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 a

Re: mesh portal discovery

2008-01-09 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 15:15 -0500, Michail Bletsas wrote: > Running application proxies on every XO that wants to act as a mesh > portal? Running NAT-PT. Since they're required to run NAT as it is anyway, that shouldn't be too much of a problem. And this 'mesh portal' mode isn't something we rea

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: 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 f

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 as

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_c

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

Re: Testing the Wireless driver changes

2008-01-17 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 19:16 -0500, Giannis Galanis wrote: > It must be noted that the important issue of this discussion is how to have > the radio blocked from BEFORE the XO boots, so as not to be conflicting with > the airline regulations. We should change the firmware so that it isn't active a

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 distin

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? W

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

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 t

SD card won't power up in OFW

2008-01-19 Thread David Howard
Saw a short thread with this subject in December 2007. I also got the "SDHCI: Card didn't power up after 1 second" message. The SD is a Toshiba SDHC 4GB. Q2D07 and 650/653/656 OS. I tried last two on the SD after verifying the images with Q (QEMU). Here is where it's more interesting. I ima

Re: Rebuilding the Kernel

2008-01-26 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 15:14 -0500, Tom Hoffman wrote: > OK, not quite there... > > I installed the regular, devel and src RPM's for the kernel I've got on my XO. > > cd'ed to here: > /usr/src/kernels/2.6.22-20080118.2.olpc.a985ba6d19d39cc-i586/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga > > Did: make -C /lib/mod

Speak activity and speech synthesisor

2008-01-28 Thread David Leeming
I am interested in how to localise the XO for our Pacific Islands region in terms of the Speak activity and speech synthesis generally. Most languages here are phonetic with each letter being pronounced, so it should be simple. Any pointers to how to do this would appreciated. David Leeming

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