Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my job description is simply kernel guy, not tied to XO or XS, so I will build something against your F9 kernel that you can test and will volunteer myself to keep XS libertas in sync with XO libertas until we get

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's more straight than saying: The team recommends that the only firmware to be used with the new 2.6.25 kernel is 22.p18 As a developer, I can relate 100% to that. As a release manager (and I have to play both here)

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds fantastic. In my enthusiasm, I missed one bit: On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will build something against your F9 kernel that you can test The that you can test

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-14 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Sep 14 2008, at 18:36, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my job description is simply kernel guy, not tied to XO or XS, so I will build something against your F9 kernel that you can test and will volunteer

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my job description is simply kernel guy, not tied to XO or XS, so I will build something against your F9 kernel that you can test and will volunteer myself to keep XS libertas in sync with XO libertas until we get

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's more straight than saying: The team recommends that the only firmware to be used with the new 2.6.25 kernel is 22.p18 As a developer, I can relate 100% to that. As a release manager (and I have to play both here)

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds fantastic. In my enthusiasm, I missed one bit: On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will build something against your F9 kernel that you can test The that you can test

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-12 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 01:10:58AM -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote: Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/12/2008 12:50:50 AM: Where is that list? Who has it? Who coordinates bugtracking for the libertas stuff? Can't be that much of a mistery. /important If that's a mystery to you

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-12 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Sep 12 2008, at 17:08, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 12 2008, at 14:12, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: On this same thread, yesterday... Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the XO 8.2 kernel

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-12 Thread mbletsas
]; Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED]; XS Devel [EMAIL PROTECTED]; OLPC Devel devel@lists.laptop.org; Michail Bletsas Subject: Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS On Sep 12 2008, at 17:08, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-12 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Martin, On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is that list? Who has it? Who coordinates bugtracking for the libertas stuff? Can't be that much of a mistery. /important If

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-12 Thread mbletsas
]; Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED]; XS Devel server-devel@lists.laptop.org; OLPC Devel [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Michail Bletsas Subject: Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS On Sep 12 2008, at 17:08, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Martin, On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The release notes can be acessed here: http://www.laptop.org/teamwiki/index.php/Tech:FW_8388_RELEASE_NOTES 22.p18 is the current

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fedora 9 ships with a 2.6.25 kernel with a new libertas driver. Because of the changes implemented in this driver, you should use the latest firmware (22.p18). Please, never use 2.6.25 kernel with older firmware. Ok,

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Ricardo Carrano
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fedora 9 ships with a 2.6.25 kernel with a new libertas driver. Because of the changes implemented in this driver, you should use the latest

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, I need an overview of what works and what doesn't with F9 stock kernel and 22.p18. So far: - Deepak mentions issues w/multicast I'm not sure exactly of what we're talking about here. Could you or Deepak

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Michail Bletsas
: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, I need an overview of what works and what doesn't with F9 stock kernel and 22.p18. So far: - Deepak mentions issues w/multicast I'm not sure exactly of what we're

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our advice is to use 5.110.22.p18 Sorry if I am sounding difficult -- I am just trying to understand the upsides and downsides of 22.p18 Clearly, it fixes some bugs we knew about and we already know it introduces others.

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Michail Bletsas
Clearly, it fixes some bugs we knew about and we already know it introduces others. I assume someone is keeping track of that info -- What bugs does it introduce? M___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Sep 12 2008, at 14:12, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, I need an overview of what works and what doesn't with F9 stock kernel and 22.p18. So far: - Deepak mentions issues w/multicast I'm not

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clearly, it fixes some bugs we knew about and we already know it introduces others. I assume someone is keeping track of that info -- What bugs does it introduce? That is the info I am asking -- without being involved

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Michail Bletsas
Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/12/2008 12:50:50 AM: What bugs does it introduce? That is the info I am asking -- without being involved in the Libertas efforts I know of a few issues as discussed in this thread: - Deepak mentions it has an incompatibility with the F9

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 12 2008, at 14:12, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: On this same thread, yesterday... Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the XO 8.2 kernel we had to pull forward some patches from the stable 2.6.22

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is that list? Who has it? Who coordinates bugtracking for the libertas stuff? Can't be that much of a mistery. /important If that's a mystery to you after so many months of working for OLPC, I really don't want to

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Hi Martin, On 9/9/08, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - F9 libertas-usb8388-firmware-5.111.20.p49-1 - F9/XO (8.2-759) libertas-usb8388-firmware-5.111.22.p18-1 You are definitely better off using

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Sep 10 2008, at 11:04, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: Now that I have a F9-based XS build, I've dropped the custom-compiled driver and the firmware for Libertas, hoping to use the stock standard F9. But that might be a bit optimistic :-) After a quick check it looks like the XO

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Ricardo Carrano
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fedora 9 ships with a 2.6.25 kernel with a new libertas driver. Because of the changes implemented in this driver, you should use the latest

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Michail Bletsas
Subject Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, I need an overview of what works and what doesn't with F9 stock kernel and 22.p18. So far: - Deepak mentions issues w/multicast I'm not sure exactly of what

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our advice is to use 5.110.22.p18 Sorry if I am sounding difficult -- I am just trying to understand the upsides and downsides of 22.p18 Clearly, it fixes some bugs we knew about and we already know it introduces others.

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Sep 12 2008, at 14:12, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, I need an overview of what works and what doesn't with F9 stock kernel and 22.p18. So far: - Deepak mentions issues w/multicast I'm not

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is that list? Who has it? Who coordinates bugtracking for the libertas stuff? Can't be that much of a mistery. /important If that's a mystery to you after so many months of working for OLPC, I really don't want to

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-10 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Hi Martin, On 9/9/08, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - F9 libertas-usb8388-firmware-5.111.20.p49-1 - F9/XO (8.2-759) libertas-usb8388-firmware-5.111.22.p18-1 You are definitely better off using

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-10 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Sep 10 2008, at 11:04, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: Now that I have a F9-based XS build, I've dropped the custom-compiled driver and the firmware for Libertas, hoping to use the stock standard F9. But that might be a bit optimistic :-) After a quick check it looks like the XO

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The release notes can be acessed here: http://www.laptop.org/teamwiki/index.php/Tech:FW_8388_RELEASE_NOTES 22.p18 is the current version in joyride. Anything older than 22.p14 is not recommended at all (quite the

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main question for Libertas experts from the POV of the XS is: what firmware is most stable? On the XS power consumption and sleep are not high priority. Stability and performance over long periods of time is. Also -

Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
Now that I have a F9-based XS build, I've dropped the custom-compiled driver and the firmware for Libertas, hoping to use the stock standard F9. But that might be a bit optimistic :-) After a quick check it looks like the XO images are shipping newer Libertas firmware as you can see below. The

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-09 Thread Michail Bletsas
Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/09/2008 07:04:31 PM: After a quick check it looks like the XO images are shipping newer Libertas firmware as you can see below. The XO builds also have a few problems with the Firmware too, so I'm not entirely sure what to do... - F9

Re: Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - F9 libertas-usb8388-firmware-5.111.20.p49-1 - F9/XO (8.2-759) libertas-usb8388-firmware-5.111.22.p18-1 You are definitely better off using 5.110.22.p18 With my release-manager hat on: can I have more info to help me