Brick Insurance

[Gabor Dolla]

Hi

Will this insurance thing defend against failed bios upgrade only ?
Or will this thing help when Linux wouldn't boot or X or sugar can not start
after software update ?

Gabor

On 1/30/07, Mitch Bradley <wmb at firmworks.com> wrote:
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> Ivan Krstić wrote:
> > ron minnich wrote:
> >
> >> Question is, does OLPC want to look at this type of brick insurance?
> >>
> >
> > Yes, I've just been waiting until we have a clearer idea of the final
> > size of OFW before asking Mitch about it.
> >
> Agreed.
>
> For now it won't help much because the EC code, which is a single point
> of failure, has to be upgraded so often due to changes from Quanta.
> When that settles down, we should do something along the lines that Ron
> suggests.  There are quite a few ways it can be done.  We'll need to
> consider the characteristics of the FLASH device and the likely failure
> modes to pick the most effective strategy.
>
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