Detailed schedule information for BTest.

[Jim Gettys]

As a result of the strong request of the software team for more time,
Mark and Quanta doing everything to provide more time. 

The previous dates for test version images for Quanta stand: part of
this build is enabling Quanta to test their own internal production
processes.

Dates (Boston time)

November 5/6, Sunday - All software for possible inclusion must 
                be packaged and available to the Cambridge team
November 5, Sunday evening - BIOS test image to Quanta; will not 
                be fully qualified
November 6, Monday - Decision point on "is it good enough to ship in 
                the base image"; note we may defer software to BTest2
                but make a repository where people can easily download
                and try the software.
November 7 or 8, Tuesday/Wednesday - arrival in Boston of functional
                DCON ASIC boards.
November 6-9 - Qualification testing of the BIOS with any critical bug
                fixing.
November 6-9 - Bug fixing of the NAND image.
November 6-9 - Bug fixing and testing of the BIOS and NAND image
November 9, 7PM - Final date/time for a fully qualified BIOS image; we
                hope/expect it will be a version from significantly
                earlier
November 9, 7PM - Test NAND image to Quanta
November 10, Taipei - Hand assembly of first units, using test 
                NAND image
November 9-13 - further testing of NAND image
November 13, 7PM - Final, fully QA'ed NAND image to Quanta, in the form
                of a bootable installation key (see below).
November 14th, Taipei - assembly of machines.

The first deliverable will be a BIOS + wireless updater, due Taiwan on
November 9th.  This MUST be a bootable USB key.  It does NOT need to
update the NAND Flash, since Quanta will blow away the NAND Flash image
during system assembly.

The next deliverable will be a complete images for all countries on
November 13th, but it must be perfect, in the sense that we expect that
QA will have tested, that folks will be very careful to have complete
and signed releases, etc.  There will be no opportunity to rework: if
those bits are bad, you'll turn 875 systems into junk.

                        Jim, Mark and Chris
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child