[OLPC-devel] Testing LinuxBIOS installation release

[Richard Smith]

> So, OLPC is going to have to have a 'known good' list for USB hardware,
> I think. I don't see a way out. I have a 512MB PNY dongle that worked
> "for a while" on my t41, and works fine on OLPC; a 1GB sandisk that
> works fine on the laptop, though only with powered hub; same sandisk
> works fine on OLPC WITHOUT powered hub; and so on.

I'll 2nd those reports.  Bitworks has a product with a custom USB
stack in it and I'm dealing with a lot of the same issues.

If you look at a lot of the consumer type products with USB on them
most of them have a "known good" list.

As another data point the 3 different types of USB keys I've used with
my OLPC all work fine _without_ a powerd hub.  My 1GiB key runs the
redhat build with no errors.  The others are too small for the redhad
build so I've not tested them.

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Richard A. Smith