Announcing Q2E43 firmware for XO-1

[Mitch Bradley]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Mitch Bradley <wmb at laptop.org> wrote:
>   
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e43 is a candidate for a
>> general-availability firmware release for XO-1.  It fixes problems found
>> during testing of q2e42, which was not intended for general availability
>> (because we suspected it would have problems due to the long interval
>> from q2e41 to q2e42).
>>     
>
> Woohoo! (I had actually said as much in private email earlier ;-) )
>
> Testing it
>
>  - test /camera has the same (dark-ish) video feedback as q2e41. Under
> 802 Record.xo shows normal brightness.
>   

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10163

>  - test /pci/timer fails 50% of the time on one XO-1 board (of two) --
> "The ISA PIT timer is ticking at the wrong rate". Not clear
>   


Possibly related to http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10146 .  Try the new 
firmware to see if that fixes it.

>  - Unsecured NANDBlasting test passed - with clients running Q2E41 and Q2E43
>
> cheers,
>
>
> m
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