last day for another stable build

[Ronak Chokshi]

Marcelo,

We feel that whenever OLPC schedules a build of laptops, the wireless
firmware to be used in them should be the last stable version which has
been released through Marvell website and has most of the bug fixes from
the Marvell engineering team as well as the required feature set
targeted for that build of laptops. Also, more importantly, we would
also like to make sure that the wireless firmware has passed most of the
tests done by the Marvell QA team. All this takes time and in this
build's case, since the multicast support is required and has been very
newly added, there was not enough time to rigorously test the
development firmware released on the TechWiki by Cozybit or even time to
merge the recent bug fixes to this version of the firmware. Hence, I
said that "for the purpose of this build, we will have to use the
development build released by Cozybit on the TechWiki". So, I would look
at this more as an exception than a regular behavior that we would like
to follow going forward.

 

Thanks

Ronak

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcelo Tosatti [mailto:marcelo at kvack.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 4:47 PM
To: Ronak Chokshi
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti; Christopher Blizzard; sugar; Devel at laptop.org;
David Woodhouse
Subject: Re: last day for another stable build

 

Ronak,

 

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:21:25PM -0800, Ronak Chokshi wrote:

> Hi Marcelo,

> For the purpose of the build, we will have to use the development
build

> released by Cozybit on the TechWiki

> (http://laptop.org/teamwiki/index.php/Image:Libertas-firmware.tgz)
since

> as highlighted in the Release Notes of these release, Cozybit is still

> to adopt our bug fixes.

> 

> We are testing this build (v5.220.9.p10) in our lab over a network of

> approx. 15 days. We will be doing this through the weekend and will
post

> our test result details by end of the day on Monday. This will give

> everyone confidence in the firmware build that will go in the next
build

> of laptops.

 

I just noticed that v5.220.9.p10 has been released.

 

What is not clear to me is whether we can include such release in our OS

build or not?

 

It appears that we can, given your comment above saying "For the purpose

of the build, we will have to use the development build released by

Cozybit on the TechWiki". Is that right?

 

Thanks

 

> 

> Thanks

> Ronak

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Marcelo Tosatti [mailto:marcelo at kvack.org] 

> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:30 AM

> To: Ronak Chokshi

> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti; Christopher Blizzard; sugar; Devel at laptop.org;

> David Woodhouse

> Subject: Re: last day for another stable build

> 

> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:01:13AM -0800, Ronak Chokshi wrote:

> > Hi Marcelo,

> > I would suggest to include the firmware v5.110.12.p0. This is the
most

> > stable build. Every other build on the TechWiki is a development
build

> > and work in progress.

> > 

> > Whoever will include this build, here are the instructions on
getting

> > the binary from our website:

> > 

> > - Go to http://www.marvell.com/drivers/search.do

> > - Type "OLPC" in the Product category and hit Submit.

> > - The first version in the search results that pops up should be

> > v5.110.12.p0 and should say " USB 8388 OLPC Firmware for MPP (Mesh

> > Portal Point)"

> > 

> > This has a zip file and a .bin in it. This is the firmware build
that

> > you would need.

> 

> Ronak,

> 

> We need multicast support. What is the plan regarding a Marvell
release

> of such feature?

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