New F13-arm build os15

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 09:07:49 EDT 2011


On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin at laptop.org> wrote:

> The "olpc-utils and usable" build.
>
> http://build.laptop.org/F13-arm/os15/
>
> Changelog:
>
> This build is very close to os14. Unless you are debugging boot
> issues, skip os14.
>
> What's new?
>
> * Will trigger runin scripts if TS is set to 'runin' in the mfg data
> (thanks Richard!)
>
> * Normal non-debugging kernel
>
> * mmp-camera: implement contiguous DMA operation. Load the module with
> buffer_mode=1 for
>    contiguous DMA mode.
>
> os14 changelog
>
> * olpc-utils is now (mostly) working, this means that
>  - system boots straight into Sugar or switch to GNOME. Note! the
> desktop switch currently gets stuck after X stops, you need to switch
> to a VT, and execute "start prefdm"
>  - X.org starts on tty0
>  - better X.org config file - DPMS is off, dpi settings are more reasonable
>  - overall, a lot less hacks in the build
>
> * /bootpart is mounted as you'd expect (thanks to olpc-utils), and is
> ext2. This means, among other things, that runin can now pickup a
> runin.tar.gz from /bootpart .
>
> To install:
>
> ok fs-update ext:\os15.zd
>
>
This runs OK for me although I initially had issues updating it due to an
older OFW version which presumably didn't have the complete sparse support
for fs-update. Once I updated to a later OFW it updated fine (even off USB).

Peter
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