MP Build... FYI

[Richard A. Smith]

John Watlington wrote:

> Quanta wants assurance that the software workaround which was broken in 
> #4479 is fixed.
> Richard's testing is necessary to confirm this.   It is also essential 
> that the kernel fix
> which is theoretically the only difference between 624 and 625 be part 
> of the production
> test code to further confirm this.   If Quanta sees this problem AT ALL 
> in the production
> testing, there will be pressure to halt until further hardware/software 
> fixes are found.

I'm getting a slightly different story.  I was trying to meet with 
people yesterday to discuss the whole mfg testing procedure so I knew 
what was going on and what I would need to do to get the new kernel into 
the Run-In image.

Arnold tells me that he thinks its  too late to get the DCON workaround 
kernel into the Run-In image.  He suggestion was that if we see a DCON 
problem that we pull the machine out of the rack, update the kernel and 
then re-add it back into the testing.

-- 
Richard Smith  <richard at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child