System Software Telecon minutes, 2006-10-10

[Jordan Crouse]

On 11/10/06 19:18 +0800, Ted.Juan at quantatw.com wrote:
> Jordan,
> Things are acting strangely on the B test board.  Not seeing proper interrupts. (The EC is different.)
> Three interrupt are from 3700 EC - SCI,SWI,SERIRQ.
> SCI,SWI are defined at ACPI, but we don't use ACPI.
> SERIRQ are irq1,irq12, we test with keyboard, mouse. All work properly 
> What's the strange thing you get?

The EC issues wern't mine - I think Richard or Mitch can speak to them
better.

Jordan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel-bounces at laptop.org [mailto:devel-bounces at laptop.org] On Behalf Of Mitch Bradley
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:32 AM
> To: OLPC Developer's List
> Subject: System Software Telecon minutes, 2006-10-10
> 
> System SW Meeting Minutes
> 2006-10-10
> 
> Jim, Chris Blizzard, Mitch, Ray, Jordan, Chris Ball, Andres
> 
> AI: Mitch: supply Open Firmware for people to start testing
> AI: Mitch: supply Open Firmware test for B1 mouse
> AI: Jim: look into what it takes to add verified state to trac
> AI: Jordan: add gamma support to gx
> AI: Chris Blizzard: ping Marcello about #42 and #147
> 
> 
> Decided to use Open Firmware as the bootloader.  Key decision factor
> was the ability to include diagnostics.  Will still use LinuxBIOS,
> but the payload will be OFW instead of Linux-as-bootloader.
> New OFW USB stack is working with mass storage, keyboards.
> OFW Marvell wireless driver is written but not tested.
> (5536) NAND FLASH driver, JFFS2 driver (R/O), SMbus driver are working.
> No IPV6 support yet.  No consensus about whether we need IPV6 in firmware.
> May wait until after B1 build to deploy Open Firmware.
> Need to get people started on testing.
> 
> Do we need a verified state in Trac.  General consensus is yes.
> 
> Do we need another build?
>   * Xorg 7.2 is drawing funny colors in 16-bit mode.
>   * sysprof and memprof are not in the build yet, but they are not blockers.
>   * Jim wants to get the 7.2 server with input working into people's hands.
>   * The driver is usable in 24-bit mode.  The down side is that it uses
>     a lot of memory
>   * evdev is included, but not config'ed in
> 
> LB interrupt routing for CaFe.  Pin A needs to be directed to a real pin.
> 
> Richard has an offer from OLPC.
> 
> Priorities:
>   - Get all the hardware working
>   - Get a network manager interface for Sugar, get the browser working well
>   - Something to demonstrate the camera
>   - Stabilize the X setup
> 
> Chris Ball to get closure on the buildrom sandbox.
> 
> Driver/integration:
>   - DCON being integrated into 2.6 git tree
>   - CaFe drivers - all integrated into 2.6 tree, can't test because
>     of BIOS setting.
>   - We think it is possible to use the CaFe drivers using class id
>     matches.
> 
> The NAND section of the Altera FPGA CaFe is not yet working.  Need
> to ping Mark to see if this is a schedule risk.
> 
> soren doesn't actually own memprof.  No more progress on that front.
> 
> 7.2 X server is in the tree.
> 
> Jordan and Adam are talking about X, but need to have more regular 
> discussions.
> 
> tmpfs in RAM.  Marcello has opinion
> 
> Mitch:
>   B1 build will have 256M.  B2 build will have an assortment of 128M.
>   Mark asked Mitch to send the failed board back to Quanta.
> 
> X config that "just works": Zephaniah and Chris Ball have been working
> on it, sent Chris Blizzard a config file for testing.
> 
> Things are acting strangely on the B test board.  Not seeing proper 
> interrupts.
> (The EC is different.)
> 
> Jordan:
>   PRS - promises to attack it tomorrow.
>   Needs to open a trac bug about the speed problem.
>   Need to talk to Tom about NMI and oprofile
>   DCON is in the kernel.  Backlight, color, but not gamma or dcon sleep
> 
> Ray:
>   Today will ship out battery to David W. et al
>   Update EC code over the weekend so we can start on battery driver
> 
> Andres:
>   Touchpad calibration - imported Z's work and added calibration stuff
> 
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Jordan Crouse
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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