MP Build... FYI

[Arnold.Kao at quantatw.com]

Actually, I had asked our test engineer in CSMC to prepare 625 for the factory suspend/resume test tomorrow. They are doing this right now.  It means we should have both 624 and 625 test image to be ready tomorrow.  We can make decision which image we want to use in the factory suspend/resume test after we confirm the test result of the 4 machines that were failed with DCON problem before.  

 
Best Regards,
Arnold Kao
Quanta Computer Inc. 
Tel : 886-3-327-2345 EXT:18958
Fax : 886-3-328-9780


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Smith [mailto:smithbone at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Richard A. Smith
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 1:46 PM
To: John Watlington
Cc: Kim Quirk; Jim Gettys; Arnold Kao (高顯宗); Mary Lou Jepsen; devel; Andres Salomon
Subject: Re: MP Build... FYI

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