[PATCH] Adding the olpc-register script to olpc-util

[Dan Williams]

On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 11:43 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On 7/27/07, Nelson Elhage <nelhage at mit.edu> wrote:
> > This is a patch to olpc-util to add a script to register the XO with
> > the schoolserver for purposes of backup for trial 2
> > (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/24).
> 
> > +    sn = read_ofw('mfg-data/SN')
> > +    uuid = read_ofw('mfg-data/U#')
> 
> Certain old machines don't have SN or U# data.  You should have
> read_ofw return None if the file it is looking for doesn't exist, and
> then follow the above two lines with:
> 
> sn = sn or 'SHF00000000'
> uuid = uuid or '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
> 
> That should make things work properly on B1s and hand-built
> preproduction machines, among others.
> 
> We should think about how we handle a classroom full on B1s (which
> have no SN data) on the school server side.  B1s do have UUID, so
> maybe we should create the schoolserver account based on the first 8
> characters of the UUID in this case.  This shouldn't make a difference
> to the XO code, since the XO ought to take whatever account name the
> schoolserver gives it.
> 
> I don't believe I have the bits to commit a patch to olpc-util.  Could
> someone who does (danw? dcbw?) commit this and then ping me to let me
> know it's in?

We should probably do the fixes for B1s first...

I also apparently didn't get the first copy of this mail, not sure where
it went...

Dan