MP Build... FYI

[Andres Salomon]

On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:06:57 -0500
Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>    > I'm still confused/concerned....  In particular, I have memories
>    > of a change for manufacturing test to cause the systems to wake
>    > up on multi-cast, to enable the mass suspend/resume testing of
>    > units.
> 
>    > Andres, did this ever go by chance into the 62x series of builds
>    > (as opposed to being a separate kernel RPM?
> 
>    > If so, at which build did it go in?
> 
> There's been a miscommunication:  while the ChangeLog for 624 says
> "* libertas wake on network data" (whatever that means), such a patch
> was not in the build.  The only difference between 623->624 was one
> patch that modified the DCON, and the only difference between 624->625
> was another single DCON patch.  Jim's description of each build is
> correct.

Sigh.  Looks like the wrong kernels ended up the builds.  The main
differences between them are the wake-on-broadcast patch, and some
additional delays in the dcon workaround code.  Hopefully that
shouldn't make a difference...


> 
> The "wake on broadcast" patch went into a "mfgtest" kernel branch
> so that it could be used independently by Quanta (since it is not
> appropriate for a release).  The 6xx builds use the "trial-3"
> series of kernels, which did not see this patch.
> 
> - Chris.