Announcing Q2D07, withdrawing Q2D05 and Q2D06

Mitch Bradley wmb at laptop.org
Fri Dec 7 04:58:17 EST 2007


The manufacturing team found a critical firmware bug that exists in both 
Q2D05 and Q2D06.  It can cause your machine to become a brick if the 
month register gets the value 0 in it (normally that register has values 
1 through 12).  See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5391 for details.

Q2D05 and Q2D06 are hereby withdrawn in favor of Q2D07.  
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2d07

Q2D07 is exactly like Q2D06 with the addition of a fix for bug 5391.

If you have either Q2D05 or Q2D06, you should upgrade to Q2D07.  There 
is little danger of immediate failure, however.  Once the RTC is set 
correctly (if your machine is working now, the RTC is okay), it won't go 
bad unless you remove the RTC battery or the RTC battery fails (unlikely 
for several years) or you go out of your way to invalidate the RTC value.

My apologies for this egregious bug.

Mitch Bradley




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