#11089 HIGH 1.75-fi: XO-1.75 B1 brick due to efface-md failure to flash-open (after RTC power fail or sufficient elapsed time)

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#11089: XO-1.75 B1 brick due to efface-md failure to flash-open (after RTC power
fail or sufficient elapsed time)
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           Reporter:  Quozl                |       Owner:  greenfeld    
               Type:  defect               |      Status:  new          
           Priority:  high                 |   Milestone:  1.75-firmware
          Component:  ofw - open firmware  |     Version:  1.75-B1      
         Resolution:                       |    Keywords:               
        Next_action:  test in release      |    Verified:  0            
Deployment_affected:                       |   Blockedby:               
           Blocking:                       |  
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Comment(by gnu):

 The lowercase "md" tag isn't documented at
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data - and
 in particular there's no hint that the system will refuse to boot if it's
 not properly set.  (There's a "Req" field for manufacturing data fields
 that are required for proper operation of the laptop.)

 And am I correctly inferring that during boot-up, OFW is looking for "md"
 and changing it to "MD"?
 That seems a bit odd/dangerous to be doing at the very first user boot.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11089#comment:8>
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