[OLPC-devel] Re: LinuxBIOS and integrated system debug status (Friday night).

[Jim Gettys]

On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 07:56 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

> >   4) the current sugar in build 79 looks to not scale itself properly to
> > the 1024x768 resolution screen I chose for the default since that is the
> > most likely to "just work on everyone's screen" size.
> 
> Did we also get the DCON mode in, conditional on actually finding a DCON
> on the SMBus?

No.  Next order of business after we get this version shipped.

> 
> >   o We determined that FC6 and Ubuntu Edgy cannot successfully build a
> > ROM image; the resulting image hangs long into the boot sequence.  FC5
> > and Ubuntu Dapper can build an image reliably.  So we'll stop beating
> > our heads on this wall for the moment.  Half of today was lost on this
> > one.
> 
> Different compilers?

Yup.  Smells like exactly this.

> 
> > I don't think we're quite ready to ship this one yet. Close, very, very,
> > very close, but not quite.  1) and 2) are the (potential) blockers.  I'd
> > probably settle for the Marvell working, and live with the mount problem
> > temporarily.  We can tell people not to use the NAND until we track it
> > down. The sugar problem is pretty minor.
> 
> Do we also have some attempt at a resume-from-RAM path?
> 

Not yet; Mitch will work on this right after Cafe' bringup.
                                - Jim

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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child