Re: testing 8.2 using qemu

2008-09-19 Thread Gabriel Eirea
Hi Gary, Thank you for your response. The Moon activity looks like a very good place to learn how to do things, it is very well written and easy to understand. I will read about json. One small suggestion: when you toggle hemispheres, it would be good to have a text label showing the current

Re: testing 8.2 using qemu

2008-09-19 Thread Philippe Clérié
On Thursday 18 September 2008 09:16:57 Ton van Overbeek wrote: The second one (3DNow required) is due to the change to the 2.6.25 kernel for 8.2. The kernel checks for CPU features and does not continue booting when it does not find them. The kernel for the XO is build for the AMD LX-Geode and

Re: testing 8.2 using qemu

2008-09-18 Thread Ton van Overbeek
Gabriel Eirea wrote: Hi list, I'm having a hard time trying to test an activity in 8.2 using qemu. The activity (Conozco Uruguay) doesn't work in 8.2 although it works fine in previous versions. We suspect it is related to rainbow (trac #8334). Since there is little documentation on rainbow

Re: testing 8.2 using qemu

2008-09-18 Thread Gabriel Eirea
Ton, Thank you for your response, it clarifies the problem. I will try to compile qemu and hopefully get 8.2 running. Is there another way of testing 8.2 without using an emulator? I have the sugar package in Ubuntu 8.04. I guess there should be a way of installing different versions of sugar

Re: testing 8.2 using qemu

2008-09-18 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
I created RPMs for Fedora 9 and 8 based on the latest qemu from SVN. You can download them from http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/qemu/ You will have to use the -cpu athlon option to get things working. I could run the 8.2-760 ext3 image fine in my Intel iMac desktop (running Fedora 9). It would be

Re: testing 8.2 using qemu

2008-09-18 Thread Michael Stone
Gabriel, To understand Rainbow, start by reading http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Security http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API#Security http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rainbow or by asking people about it on IRC. Michael P.S. - You wrote that Since there is little documentation on

Re: testing 8.2 using qemu

2008-09-18 Thread Ton van Overbeek
Michael Stone wrote: Gabriel, To understand Rainbow, start by reading http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Security http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API#Security http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rainbow or by asking people about it on IRC. Michael P.S. - You wrote that Since

Re: testing 8.2 using qemu

2008-09-18 Thread pgf
ton van overbeek wrote: Michael Stone wrote: Gabriel, To understand Rainbow, start by reading http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Security http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API#Security http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rainbow or by asking people about it on IRC.

Re: testing 8.2 using qemu

2008-09-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:13:35PM -0300, Gabriel Eirea wrote: Gabriel, Thank you for your detailed and polite response. Thank you for the links. Actually I had already visited links 2 and 3 doing a search on rainbow in the wiki. Unfortuantely I was unable to understand what rainbow means from

Re: testing 8.2 using qemu

2008-09-18 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:13:35PM -0300, Gabriel Eirea wrote: Second issue: a very simple question, what does $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/data mean? and how can I put the configuration files there when I pack the bundle?

Re: testing 8.2 using qemu

2008-09-18 Thread Gabriel Eirea
Michael, I appreciate your response, everyone in OLPC is always trying to help and that is comforting. Everything I write you should read it as feedback from a not very proficient activity developer. I'm not interested in whining nor blaming, just want to help pointing out things that from my

Re: testing 8.2 using qemu

2008-09-18 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Gabriel, On 19 Sep 2008, at 01:43, Gabriel Eirea wrote: I appreciate your explanation but my question was not about the literal meaning but about where in the filesystem does the variable point to. I just looked at where my Moon activity was being told to write: