Getting an XO connected to WLAN from commandline

2012-08-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
If you are working on an XO from serial port or the commandline, and you want to drive NetworkManager to connect to your WLAN without using X, here's what you can do. In my case, I have an open AP, ESSID olpc - Create /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/olpc, containing: [connection] id=olpc

Migrating XO-1.75 to device tree - upgrade considerations

2012-08-21 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, We want to follow the upstream direction of dynamically driving hardware detection by the firmware-provided device tree, rather than hardcoding a board file into the kernel. We have in-development kernel and firmware versions that make this move, but we need to do this in a way that doesn't

Re: Migrating XO-1.75 to device tree - upgrade considerations

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Fox
daniel wrote: Hi, We want to follow the upstream direction of dynamically driving hardware detection by the firmware-provided device tree, rather than hardcoding a board file into the kernel. We have in-development kernel and firmware versions that make this move, but we need to

Re: Migrating XO-1.75 to device tree - upgrade considerations

2012-08-21 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I do not have an XO-1.75. But with other XO models, I update firmware INDEPENDENTLY of updating the distribution, and update the kernel INDEPENDENTLY of updating the firmware or the distribution. Surely I am not alone in the world in doing so. If stable (old) kernels will not boot with

Re: Migrating XO-1.75 to device tree - upgrade considerations

2012-08-21 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 12:04 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, We want to follow the upstream direction of dynamically driving hardware detection by the firmware-provided device tree, rather than hardcoding a board file into the kernel. We have in-development kernel and firmware versions that

Re: Migrating XO-1.75 to device tree - upgrade considerations

2012-08-21 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:04:04PM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: 2. Append the XO-1.75 device tree to the kernel image. We also hope to boot this same kernel on other hardware, so it might be necessary to include multiple device trees in this kernel. This is my favourite option - while we would

Re: Migrating XO-1.75 to device tree - upgrade considerations

2012-08-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:24 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:04:04PM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: 2. Append the XO-1.75 device tree to the kernel image. We also hope to boot this same kernel on other hardware, so it might be necessary to include multiple