[Trac #244] Need /boot/olpc-boot.fth files in builds, in addition to current .sh

[Jim Gettys]

The people getting boards vary in expertise, and many are not native
speakers of English.

Unless/until the investment is quite high, I think we should avoid
generating trouble for people.

I have yet to hear that it is actually a serious burden...  Convince me
otherwise....
                               - Jim

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 11:11 -0500, Ivan Krstić wrote:
> Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> > Because we're not dickheads and are willing to take reasonable efforts
> > to give people the ability to continue to upgrade?
> 
> What? How does not supporting a direct upgrade from a ridiculously
> outdated and time-expired BIOS make us dickheads? These are not end
> users! The developer board program has its responsibilities -- one of
> them is to heed our update requests. People not willing to do so months
> after they go out are not a use case we should spend any time on supporting.
> 
> > In all seriousness, we might be able to say that you have to upgrade
> > more than once.  
> 
> That's precisely what the last sentence of my mail was saying.
> 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child