Manufacturing tags

Sayamindu Dasgupta sayamindu at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 17:00:48 EDT 2008


>From what I understand the keyboard related tags are directly related
to the locale, so the information which is currently in the K* tags
_might_ be retrieved from the locale tag (we would probably need to
maintain a table in olpc-utils for this).
Thanks,
Sayamindu


On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:56 AM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> As replacing the SPI flash becomes a more regular
> occurence, reinstalling the manufacturing tags is becoming
> a problem.
>
> What tags are absolutely essential for our software to operate ?
>
> These are:
> SN  (serial number)
> U#  (uuid)
>
> What about these ?:
> LO   (C locale)
> KL   (keyboard layout)
> LA   (country code)
> KA   (Keyboard ASCII map)
> KV   (keyboard variant)
> WM  (wireless module MAC)
> SG  (motherboard rev)
> B#   (motherboard number)
>
> As every essential tag must be typed in, with a reboot between
> each, I would like to minimize the number of tags I restore.
>
> Cheers,
> wad
>
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