New system firmware to test
I've put up q20117.rom @ http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/q20117.rom People who enjoy testing firmware please do so. If nothing shows up while I sleep then I'll spin a q2e13 .rpm for joyride. The highlights are: * Much faster EC command processing. * Fix for watchdog timeout when doing battery EEPROM dumps. * Improved behavior of SCI's. Many unneeded SCI's removed from wakeup sequence. * Fix a race in the Auto Power up after a reflash. * Fix OLPC trac 7880 - fixed glitches in NAND partition support. * Fix OLPC trac 7867 -- Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: New system firmware to test
http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/q20117.rom People who enjoy testing firmware please do so. Did not succeed in installing this. Used 'flash' at the esc_prompt to write it onto my XO. But expected XO to reboot by itself - instead the power light went off, and I had to manually press the power button to do the reboot. HOWEVER, presumably because there is a /boot/bootfw.zip file in my NAND -- as soon as the XO started booting, it automatically __re-flashed__ the ROM to Q2E12. Bottom line - my system didn't let me test q20117.rom mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: New system firmware to test
Mikus Grinbergs wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/~rsmith/q20117.rom People who enjoy testing firmware please do so. Did not succeed in installing this. Used 'flash' at the esc_prompt to write it onto my XO. But expected XO to reboot by itself - instead the power light went off, and I had to manually press the power button to do the reboot. HOWEVER, presumably because there is a /boot/bootfw.zip file in my NAND -- as soon as the XO started booting, it automatically __re-flashed__ the ROM to Q2E12. Bottom line - my system didn't let me test q20117.rom This is the desired behavior. I purposefully do it this way. Sorry that I neglected to include my instructions for first timers. You either need to rm /versions/boot/current/boot/bootfw.zip or remove the external power while you boot. -- Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: New system firmware to test
Joel Stanley wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People who enjoy testing firmware please do so. My touchpad was unusable. B3, 703. If I was lucky, I could get the cursor to move ~5cm every minute (most of the time it didn't move). I tried rebooting, and doing the 4-finger trick, but the issue persisted. Reflashed back to q2d14 and the touchpad works fine. I haven't been keeping up with things, so there's not a known incompatibility with the old kernels? Reflash again and test several full power cycles. ie no battery no ext power. The act of reflashing forces a calibrate to happen. There are no touchpad related changes in the new EC code. All of the touchpad driver changes are via the kernel. So if you have an old kernel you have the old touchpad driver. I'm not sure that testing on a B3 is worth much. I think A different touchpad firmware was in use then. -- Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: New system firmware to test
Joel, Please request an MP system via the developer's program. In fact, this is true for anyone who got prototypes from us that doesn't yet have an MP system. Having good developers testing against old hardware doesn't help testing. - Jim On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 11:55 -0400, Richard A. Smith wrote: Joel Stanley wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People who enjoy testing firmware please do so. My touchpad was unusable. B3, 703. If I was lucky, I could get the cursor to move ~5cm every minute (most of the time it didn't move). I tried rebooting, and doing the 4-finger trick, but the issue persisted. Reflashed back to q2d14 and the touchpad works fine. I haven't been keeping up with things, so there's not a known incompatibility with the old kernels? Reflash again and test several full power cycles. ie no battery no ext power. The act of reflashing forces a calibrate to happen. There are no touchpad related changes in the new EC code. All of the touchpad driver changes are via the kernel. So if you have an old kernel you have the old touchpad driver. I'm not sure that testing on a B3 is worth much. I think A different touchpad firmware was in use then. -- Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Laptop Per Child ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Developer program (Re: New system firmware to test)
On 14 Aug 2008, at 17:20, Jim Gettys wrote: Please request an MP system via the developer's program. In fact, this is true for anyone who got prototypes from us that doesn't yet have an MP system. Having good developers testing against old hardware doesn't help testing. - Jim There seems to be some serious lag in the dev request process. I currently have a B4 unit, and requested 1 (or if possible 2) MP XO units so I could help test power/suspend and activity collaboration issues for 8.2.0. That request was formally approved and accepted 4-5 months ago now. I've made several gentle inquiry email pings since then but everyone seems so seriously busy I've not had a reply yet. I've been doing what I can with the B4 for 8.2.0, and even tracked a couple of collaboration glitches (for morgs) by working with random strangers on some of the public (but often off-line) jabber servers. Are there any suggestions as to how to move things along? If the answer is just a simple, no, sorry, buy your own MP in the next G1G1 cycle. That's fine, I'll keep on hacking on the B4 I was graciously sent. Regards, --Gary ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
