Re: Marvell 88W8388 (OLPC Laptop - an open source substandard ?)

2007-01-09 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
/index.html http://www.ethernut.de/api/index.html It's a bit thicker, but maybe we can afford it. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., RD dept. \X/ http://www.develer.com/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org http://mailman.laptop.org

Re: OLPC Laptop - an open source substandard ?

2007-01-13 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
that Marvell was being friendly with us. Maybe we should report this NDA thing to the LWN editor for a new scoop. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., RD dept. \X/ http://www.develer.com/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org http

Re: Enabling OProfile in the OLPC kernels?

2007-03-19 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
that would work on an OLPC system. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., RD dept. \X/ http://www.develer.com/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

OLPC slides and promotional material

2007-03-30 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
can still spare one (but I'm afraid it's a bit too late for the courier). I intend to give an overview of the project and its spirit, then describe the hardware peculiarities, some OS details, and finally the concept of Sugar's UI. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - RD director \X/ http

Mainboard schematics

2007-04-07 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
be an interesting experiment to see whether free-as-in-speech hardware products would start appearing. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - SYS64738 \X/ http://www.codewiz.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Enabling OProfile in the OLPC kernels?

2007-04-25 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
such a link would be appropriate. The sw development info is slightly outdated imho. -- // Bernardo Innocenti \X/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [PATCH] kdb: add rdmsr and wrmsr commands for i386

2007-05-15 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Mitch Bradley wrote: Bernardo Innocenti wrote: The syntax is: rdmsr addr wrmsr addr l h In the hardware documentation that I have seen, MSR values are conventionally shown as 64-bit numbers. The l h ordering will make it necessary to do a mental flip. The 32-bit pieces of MSR do

Re: kdb: add rdmsr and wrmsr commands for i386

2007-05-15 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
to coordinate the order of the high and low dwords with the order they are specified with 'wrmsr'? Yeah, I did it as suggested by Mitch. Here's a thrid revision of the patch with everything included: From 1850ca76585306e2484cf5e709434049f1df3c1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Innocenti

Re: kdb: add rdmsr and wrmsr commands for i386

2007-05-17 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
anyway. It's the valid MSR writes that could cause unrecoveable problems! :) -- // Bernardo Innocenti \X/ http://www.codewiz.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Geode tuning

2007-05-22 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
differences that may bite us in the future. As of build 428, we're still shipping with i686 versions of glibc and openssl. For safety, these should either be downgraded to i586 or replaced by the Geode specific versions. -- // Bernardo Innocenti \X/ http://www.codewiz.org

Re: Geode tuning

2007-05-22 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Bernardo Innocenti wrote: glibc = Optimized routines and benchmark results are here: http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=geode-perf;a=tree I talked about it with Rob Savoye, who has been porting this work with glibc. Patches are due soon, and I will push them to the glibc maintainers

Re: Geode tuning

2007-05-22 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Bernardo Innocenti wrote: We don't have the numbers yet, but we'll most probably need to custom-build at least glibc. Other candidates include openssl, the X server, python and maybe cairo. And yet another thing I forgot: a few days ago Chris Ball told me about the performance testing suite