[OLPC-devel] Teleconference information for OLPC software status meeting.

[Jim Gettys]

Richard Smith of the LinuxBios team, Richard Griffith of Wind River,
Chris Blizzard (OLPC/RH), Jim Gettys (OLPC).

Ray Tseng (Quanta) sent in last minute regrets, along with Benjamin
Herrenschmidt (IBM and Ozlabs).

Not much business was transacted: we did not quite have critical mass.

Chris Blizzard reports that Marcelo is very close to having installation
to / booting from the internal flash on the JFFS2 file system working.
This is working by booting a secondary Linux image off of a USB key,
kexec'ing that image, which is then able to do the install into the
JFFS2 file system created on the internal flash.  This allows
development of the installation procedure without having to reflash the
board's BIOS. Marcelo should be posting to devel soon about this
milestone.

There are two bugs remaining in the installation of stock full Fedora
onto disk/usb key: unfortunately, they result in 5 pages of instructions
to work around the bugs.  Chris (and us) hope that these go away very
soon (along with the instructions that are therefore necessary!).
                                      - Jim


On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 21:14 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Call in a few minutes.
> 
> I don't know if we'll reach critical mass this week or not: the only way
> we'll find out is if people do bother to call in. Last week's call was
> quite productive.
> 
> Please send me any agenda topics
> 
> Topics tonight:
> 	introductions of any new people,
>         LinuxBIOS/Linux as bootloader status
>         Schedule/task list.
>         Audio: success at last, up to and including analog in! But what
> should the programming API look like?
>         Installation instructions/status.
> 
>                       Regards,
>                              - Jim
> 
> 
>       
> 
> On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 23:39 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > We'll try 11 hours different this Tuesday/Wednesday.
> > 
> > So the time is 18:30PDT/19:30MDT/20:30CDT/21:30am EDT (Tue.)/1:30 GMT
> > (Wed.).
> > 
> > This works out to 11:30AM Sydney, 9:30 AM Taipei/Kuala Lumpur, 7AM
> > Bangalore. (Wed.)
> > 
> > >From  the United States: 866-213-2185 
> > >From Outside the United States:  1-609-454-9914
> > 
> > access code: 8069698
> > 
> >                                      - Jim
> > 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child