[OLPC-devel] Re: Problem after installing to NAND

Jordan Crouse jordan.crouse at amd.com
Sun Aug 27 17:42:24 EDT 2006


On 26/08/06 21:02 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> Jim Gettys wrote:
> >After unplugging this machine for half an hour or so, it magically
> >recovered.  Samat has recovered the machine he was playing with the same
> >way.
> >
> >Sure seems like something isn't getting reliably set somewhere.
> >                          - Jim
> 
> I should add that the last thing Goodrich did with us was to make sure 
> all the registers were right. The only differences left right before he 
> finished did not look importan ...

Its been established that he wasn't as thorough as he should have been. 
We're not 100% sure that we can boot reliably from a warm boot. Personally,
I've been about 95% successful - with the other 5% being infrequent as to
not be able to determine a pattern.

We need to solidify the problem, and get a debugger on it to see where we
are hanging about.

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Senior Linux Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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