[OLPC-devel] Re: Not so good news (Was: good news)

[Carl-Daniel U. Hailfinger]

Richard Smith wrote:

> > I'm back. Any progress on the issues below? I tried to read all the
> > mail sent to olpc-devel since I left, but I couldn't find any
> > solution/bugfix.
> 
> Nope no progress.  :(
> 
> > Richard? Did my debugging patch spit out anything useful?
> 
> Ugh.. I guess I missed that.  I never tried.  Sorry.
> 
> All my cycle are belong to SPI flash.  :)

Since SPI works now, I guess you can move zig debug patch for great justice. :-P


> > lzma working for PLCC. However, the nrv2b payload compression has to
> > work before I can proceed with lzma.
> 
> All the infrastructure is now in place so testing this should be pretty
> easy.
> Just create a custom config file with your compression enabled and
> then set up buildrom to use that in the Config.mk.

Will do and send a LinuxBIOS patch upstream.
This leaves the question why we specify compression related things three times: twice in buildrom and once in LinuxBIOS. Can we decide *now* where the build system gets its parameters from and leave it that way?


> Note that you still need to do a 'make linuxbios-clean' if you change
> config files.

Thanks for the hint! That explains the weird build failures I had.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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