State of the update.1

[Mitch Bradley]

Richard A. Smith wrote:
> C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>
>   
>> >From my brief triage of *only the blocker bugs*, ones which look
>> important include:
>>   * trac #1407, 2804: touchpad problems
>>     
>
> These 2 will probably not make it.  They are long standing issues with 
> the hardware. Dilinger and I have been working on them.  But progress is 
> slow.
>
>   
>>   * trac #6245: boot even if firmware needs update (smithbone working on this)
>>     
>
> I've got the patch in some test builds. Works in secure mode but has 
> problems when the machine is unlocked.  Should not be a problem to have 
> it fixed in time for Update.1.
>   


Note that the patch doesn't affect the non-secure-mode behavior.  The 
best way to fix that would be to change olpc.fth to have a similar 
behavior (i.e. check the power status before committing to the "flash" 
command and warn/drive on).