Please test the firmware release candidate q2d04m.rom

elw at stderr.org elw at stderr.org
Tue Nov 27 22:38:36 EST 2007



I loaded it on a B4 (with an .es keyboard...) a few minutes ago.

So far, everything seems to work.

Do we have a set of 'known bugs' that are tending to exacerbate 
suspend/resume-y issues?

thanks,

--elijah


On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Richard A. Smith wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:29:46 -0500
> From: Richard A. Smith <richard at laptop.org>
> To: OLPC Developer's List <devel at laptop.org>
> Subject: Please test the firmware release candidate q2d04m.rom
> 
> Calling all firmware testers.
>
> Please download and test the Q2D05 firmware release candidate.
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~wmb/q2d04m.rom
>
> Most you you should see no difference.  We just fixed a lot of trac
> tickets.
>
> Please install it and go about your normal daily stuff and tell us if
> anything breaks.
>
> Thanks.
>
> =====================================
> Important changes log from D04:
>
> EC:
> - Blink Power light on suspend
> - SCI "Danger Zone" protection. Protection from SCI related Trac
> 1835[ab] hangs.
>
> OFW:
> - OLPC Trac 5128 - Set RTC alarm day, alarm month, and century offset
> MSRs, and set century byte to 20.
> - OLPC trac 5029 - Fixed a problem that caused files written from OFW to
> be 0x400 bytes too short in certain cases.
> - OLPC trac 5022 - Fixed FAT size determination code in the face of
> crazy media type values, using Microsoft's recommended algorithm
> for determining whether to use FAT-12, FAT-16, or FAT-32.
> - OLPC trac #4982 - Discard cached JFFS2 scan info if the data changes
> on the NAND FLASH, so JFFS2 operations work correctly after copy-nand.
> Also added a couple of JFFS2 debugging tools - .dirinum and .finum ;
> nothing calls them.  They display the nodes for a given inum.
> - OLPC trac 4981 - don't hang indefinitely if the suspend sequence fails
> to power down the CPU.
> - OLPC trac 4980 - fixed scan-nand display formatting glitches, and
> added rocker-up to invoke scan-nand in secure mode.
> - OLPC trac 4898 - fixed handling of deleted files.
> - OLPC Trac 4898 - support . and .. in pathnames on JFFS2.
>
> WLAN:
> - Contains 5.110.20.p4.bin
> Tries to fix OLPC Trac 4470 and other nand/firmware updates via network
> issues.  Note the os build uses its own copy of the firmware so this
> won't fix any WLAN bugs in the build.
>
>



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