QEMU image for firmware 703

2008-06-13 Thread Urko Fernandez
The school federation in my region lend me one of the two XO-1 they got with the G1G1 program. I'm going to give a presentation next week and I'm trying to get collaboration between sugar-jhbuild and the XO with no success. Both are connected to xochat.org but only sugar-jhbuild sees the other.

Re: QEMU image for firmware 703

2008-06-13 Thread Morgan Collett
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:44, Urko Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The school federation in my region lend me one of the two XO-1 they got with the G1G1 program. I'm going to give a presentation next week and I'm trying to get collaboration between sugar-jhbuild and the XO with no success.

boot-anim

2008-06-13 Thread Neil Graham
As it stands now there seems to be no 100% reliable way to judge the compressed size of things on jffs2. I cast my eye to the boot-anim, uncompressed it comes to about 60 Meg, is there space being wasted there? http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/library/2007-July/70.html says JFFS2

RE: Upgrade G1G1 using autoreinstallation method

2008-06-13 Thread Jim Gettys
One of the AP's (or some other machine), will have to be configured to dchp. - Jim On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 07:10 +1000, David Leeming wrote: Thanks - solved. It's all there on the wiki, yes (blush). We have a lot of time pressures imposed by the political realities here, with 20+

Re: Koji Tags for 8.2.0

2008-06-13 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Questions? Complaints? Pet peeves? I'd rather rename our build roots to either correspond to fedora releases or to olpc releases. It seems that the 'olpc2, olpc3, ...' numbering is a historical accident only, and just

Re: Release Status Report - 8.2.0

2008-06-13 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before we can ship power management, though, we should also fix: * the SD corruption bug (#6532) -- if we can't fix it in time, we can inhibit suspend when an SD card is plugged in. * pushing wakeup decisions to the EC

Re: [sugar] Release Status Report - 8.2.0

2008-06-13 Thread pgf
c. scott ananian wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before we can ship power management, though, we should also fix: * the SD corruption bug (#6532) -- if we can't fix it in time, we can inhibit suspend when an SD card is plugged in. *

Re: thread summary: On Cerebro, Telepathy, yokes and whites

2008-06-13 Thread Kim Quirk
Greg, I am adding the 'testing' mailing list. We can use this 'real life' information for generating Use Cases and test cases but we will probably need to simplify it. There are too many things going on in this particular case. We have some use cases for school scenarios in some of these links:

Re: Build streams

2008-06-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The F9 build does boot into Sugar -- we aren't going to leave everyone with a broken build for long. It has bugs, though. We need help fixing the bugs more than we need a demand for constantly stable developer builds and an unwarranted supposition of conflict. Not long ago, when I tried to

Re: Koji Tags for 8.2.0

2008-06-13 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Friday 13 June 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Questions? Complaints? Pet peeves? I'd rather rename our build roots to either correspond to fedora releases or to olpc releases. It seems that the 'olpc2, olpc3, ...'

Re: Release Status Report - 8.2.0

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, is there background missing from trac? i don't read anything in #6010 other than we wake up only to go right back to sleep too often, which seems even more benign (leaving power usage aside) than you're describing. Yes, there's some background missing -- both the lid switch

RE: thread summary: On Cerebro, Telepathy, yokes and whites

2008-06-13 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Kim, Thanks for the comments and links. FYI I didn't make any representation about what is supported or what should work now or in the future. I just asked what they want to do. Wad did get the Latu people on the list and they have started participating, somewhat. We need to keep working

Re: boot-anim

2008-06-13 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Neil Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As it stands now there seems to be no 100% reliable way to judge the compressed size of things on jffs2. I cast my eye to the boot-anim, uncompressed it comes to about 60 Meg, is there space being wasted there?

Re: boot-anim

2008-06-13 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:00:54PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: I'm about to leave for 10 days vacation; bonus points to anyone who can take the 4 line change to ppmto565.py and turn this into a 'real' patch for 8.2. Source code is at:

Re: Trac: release management

2008-06-13 Thread Garrett Goebel
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 04:25:53PM -0400, Garrett Goebel wrote: ... I'll write you a query which will give all the non-closed tickets which have never been changed by the owner. Are you hoping to get OLPC management more

New joyride build 2037

2008-06-13 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2037 Changes in build 2037 from build: 2032 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar-datastore 0.7.3-1.olpc2 +sugar-datastore 0.8.1-1.olpc2 --- Changes for sugar-datastore 0.8.1-1.olpc2 from 0.7.3-1.olpc2 --- + Update to 0.8.1 -- This mail was

Re: Trac: release management

2008-06-13 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hello, I agree wholeheartedly that ticket triage and statistical analysis is a worthwhile effort, so I think I support what Garrett is talking about. At my employer we have teams of producers constantly watching individual and per-component bug counts, transfering bugs from overworked team

New faster build 2037

2008-06-13 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build2037 Changes in build 2037 from build: 2032 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar-datastore 0.7.3-1.olpc2 +sugar-datastore 0.8.1-1.olpc2 --- Changes for sugar-datastore 0.8.1-1.olpc2 from 0.7.3-1.olpc2 --- + Update to 0.8.1 -- This mail was

RE: Trac: release management

2008-06-13 Thread Bill Mccormick
I'll second Wade's comment below. Once all the features for the release are in the number 1 job of the mgt team (or the manager if she's all alone) is staying on top of problem reports. High priority tickets get done first, tickets are triaged within a day and high priority tickets get assigned

Project management theory and application (was: Re: Trac: release management)

2008-06-13 Thread Martin Dengler
Garrett, Thanks for your time and thoughts. I'm taking my response off-list, since it's about project, not release managment (though of course there is a close relationship), I know it's just developing the arguments I made already, and not going to convince anyone (not meaning just you) to

Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac

2008-06-13 Thread Faisal Anwar
Hello All, As many of you know, I'm writing up a sugar almanac to help new sugar/python developers get up and running with creating useful activities. I will try to send frequent updates in terms of what has been added. In addition to using the documentation, I'd appreciate it if people familiar

Re: Trac: release management

2008-06-13 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:37:32AM -0700, Wade Brainerd wrote: Hello, I agree wholeheartedly that ticket triage and statistical analysis is a worthwhile effort, so I think I support what Garrett is talking about. To clarify, I advocated ticket triage in my response and I attempted to make

RE: Upgrade G1G1 using autoreinstallation method

2008-06-13 Thread David Leeming
Thanks John, but I did realise that simple fact. The APs do have DHCP server set up. They still move on. David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network Tel: +677 76396(m) 24419(h) 26358 (w) www.leeming-consulting.com -Original Message- From: John Watlington [mailto:[EMAIL

[PATCH #3355] Add sysfs support for powering down the OLPC 88W8838 wireless chip.

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Ball
This uses the OLPC EC 0x35/0x25 interface. Question: is simple_strtoul() safe here? Signed-off-by: Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/kernel/olpc-pm.c | 19 +++ 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/olpc-pm.c

Re: [PATCH #6010] Add sysfs interface to enable/disable wakeup events

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Deepak, Here's the initial patch (vs testing kernel) for #6010 to provide an interface that OHM can use to enable/disable wakeup events. It still needs error handling for the ec_cmd() calls but other than that it is ready to be tested. Looks good. I was hoping for a

Re: [PATCH #3355] Add sysfs support for powering down the OLPC 88W8838 wireless chip.

2008-06-13 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Jun 13 2008, at 19:00, Chris Ball was caught saying: This uses the OLPC EC 0x35/0x25 interface. Question: is simple_strtoul() safe here? I think the preffered way to do this is via sscanf() of the incoming buffer as you can catch errors such as non-integer input. simple_stroul() will

Re: [PATCH #6010] Add sysfs interface to enable/disable wakeup events

2008-06-13 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Jun 13 2008, at 19:05, Chris Ball was caught saying: Hi Deepak, Here's the initial patch (vs testing kernel) for #6010 to provide an interface that OHM can use to enable/disable wakeup events. It still needs error handling for the ec_cmd() calls but other than that it is

Re: [PATCH #3355] Add sysfs support for powering down the OLPC 88W8838 wireless chip.

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Deepak, I think the preffered way to do this is via sscanf() of the incoming buffer as you can catch errors such as non-integer input. simple_stroul() will just return 0 which is not what we want. I'd also change the mode to 0400 as this is a write-only bit. My

Re: Upgrade G1G1 using autoreinstallation method

2008-06-13 Thread John Watlington
Not knowing more about what you've done, I have to ask a lot of v. simple questions. When you say move on, you have manually associated each laptop with the AP once, right ? And the ESSID hasn't changed ? How realiable is the failure ? Do all XOs move on to mesh mode, or is this only a

Re: Upgrade G1G1 using autoreinstallation method

2008-06-13 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 13, 2008, at 5:45 PM, David Leeming wrote: Thanks John, but I did realise that simple fact. The APs do have DHCP server set up. They still move on. BTW, not so simple. I've done tests with APs and without a DHCP server. I didn't see the problem you are referring to... wad

Re: [sugar] Recent Updates to Sugar Almanac

2008-06-13 Thread Martin Sevior
Hi Faisal, You might want to gather together the documentation we wrote for abiwidget which explains how to embed the collaborative Rich Text widget (as used by write) in python programs. The links are on our wiki here: http://www.abisource.com/wiki/AbiWidget

downloaded files and the Journal

2008-06-13 Thread S Page
I was exploring the OLPC Library in Browse in build 703. The transition from browsing to viewing a PDF in Read is pretty clunky, I noted the glitches in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Read#Many_issues_going_from_Browse_to_PDFs The oddest thing is that every time you click on a PDF, another

[Server-devel] EDuBlog XS Beta/Development Server

2008-06-13 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Tony, I think we should finalize the Fedora + XS server and get it shipped to Glen by the end of next week. My list of SW is: PostGreSQL Moodle XS Apache 2.0 PHP Networking should be setup to plug and play at Glen's hosting site. If we can get an image on CD too that let us boot and

[Server-devel] XS SW

2008-06-13 Thread Tim Moody
I'd like to wade in on the question of base SW for the XS server, especially as regards database support. I think the principle should be to use the software with the most users and developers, and therefore the most support, unless there is a compelling reason not to. So the popularity of

Re: [Server-devel] EDuBlog XS Beta/Development Server

2008-06-13 Thread Tony Pearson
Hi Greg, I'm glad we finally have settled down on a configuration for the EduBlog Beta Server (EBBS) I think we should finalize the Fedora + XS server and get it shipped to Glen by the end of next week. I've updated the wiki here with what I think are the must have and nice to have

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog v0.1 Available for Comment!

2008-06-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The blog link takes the kid to the sitewide standard Moodle blog page. Tarun, you're generally heading in the right direction, but I would recommend that you pick whether to use standard moodle blog, or oublog - so

Re: [Server-devel] EDuBlog XS Beta/Development Server

2008-06-13 Thread Tarun Pondicherry
Hi Tony, Just a thought, could you install git on the server? It would make it easier to just run a script rather than doing stuff manually and uploading with ftp. Thanks, Tarun ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] EDuBlog XS Beta/Development Server

2008-06-13 Thread Tony Pearson
Tarun, I have no idea what git is. Is it something I can install using yum? If not, please provide me location for Red Hat rpm file for it, or other instructions. Thanks Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage? Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520