Booting ATest board with external monitor

[Peter Lorenzen]

		142 works on Atest

/Peter

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				From: Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:46 PM
To: Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Booting ATest board with external monitor 

People know the answer of what build works; just not me: my brain has
turned to dripping, putrid mush over the last week; one forty something
is the best this brain can do right now.
                                 - Jim

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 15:19 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 10:11 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > Yes, there are a couple bugs that affect ATest that we chose not to fix
> > during the period we were finishing off the BTest release, as they could
> > have destabilized BTest.
> 
> Ahh gotcha. Thanks for the quick response.
> 
> > One of the items is that the boot code on the Marvell chip needs
> > updating; the later driver doesn't like the old boot code.  Right now,
> > you can trigger a bad situation on the USB bus, that needs a reset line
> > only in the BTest machines to work around (software fixes to the boot
> > code are also being worked on)..  And there is one other bug as well.
> > 
> > We're going to put a build together soon (but maybe not until the week
> > after next, after the Thanksgiving holiday) to bring the ATest machines
> > up to date; we all need a break here having worked so hard to get BTest
> > underway.
> 
> Sure, sounds good - those BTest machines look fantastic by the way.
> What's the newest build that should work with ATest? An answer of "I
> dunno, test some..." is perfectly okay ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard.
> 
> 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child

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