System Software meeting minutes, 2006-09-19

[Ivan Krstić]

Mitch Bradley wrote:
> Ray: about the mfg data area:  Need a way for repair people to rewrite
> flash
> Do we need another key or signature.

Do you mean that the repair people would be reflashing a custom BIOS, or
a standard OLPC BIOS?

> #106: Update Linuxbios Upgrading wiki page for CL2 and CL2.5 (alpha)
>      Assign to Richard.  Pictures have been taken - Jim to ding the intern

Picture up at http://solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu/~krstic/reva_infineon.jpg

Someone with gimp-fu should sample it down and do a zoom bubble showing
the Infineon chip with greater magnification.

> Meta issue: definition of milestones.  Jim thinks that they should
> correspond to builds

Jim and I talked about this, and he seemed to have been happy, but this
apparently changed?

> #81: better trac workflow (beta)
>     defer pending some more infrastructure setup to happen next week or so

Actually, this is blocking on upstream. Trac is planning to merge their
`workflow` branch soonish, and I have no intention of developing the
same functionality separately. I'll comment on the bug.

>     Jim to ask Zeuthen to get into trac

People, seriously, if you're working on OLPC, there's no excuse for not
having a Trac account. Getting one takes 30 seconds.

> #99: No mappings between build image and GIT commit ID (beta)

I'm waiting for a response from Richard; I'm still not sure I understand
the problem.

> #102: Clean /tmp on reboot; create sugar log file (beta)
>     Chris Ball to annotate this

What needs annotation?

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