new OLPC slackware 13.37 released (fwd)

[supat at supat.eu.org]

ok. Thank you FYI:

Because you certify me that flash to Q2E45 will be harmless and if has 
problem I can down grade to Q2E25 so I will upgrade it today and will let 
you know the result. May be it can fix wlan0 slow response problem and 
sound card may work correctly.

Regards,
supat

On Wed, 25 May 2011, James Cameron wrote:

> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 09:34:37PM +0700, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 May 2011, James Cameron wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 02:23:39PM +0700, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
>>>> I never update for new OLPC firmware because it work for my old
>>>> slackware 12.2. So, I don't want to mess it up.
>>>
>>> So, can you tell me what version of firmware is on your XO-1 now?
>>> You can find out in several ways, see the "Which Firmware Do You
>>> Have?" section
>>>
>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e45#Which_Firmware_Do_You_Have.3F
>>
>> From your link I found that it was:
>>
>> CL1 Q2E25 Q2E
>
> Thanks.  See below.
>
>>>> Yes, under OLPC it was recent kernel I found at OLPC: 2.6.36-rc2.
>>>
>>> Okay, I haven't found this one yet.  ;-)  Could you tell me where
>>> you found it?  I normally look at http://dev.laptop.org/~kernels/
>>> but that version is not present there,
>>
>> It was there:
>> Exactly at http://dev.laptop.org/git/olpc-2.6/
>
> Oh, okay, now I understand.  It is wonderful that it works, but
> reasonably unexpected.  We don't build from the Linus tags often, we use
> a separate branch.  That explains why I've never seen that kernel
> version on our builds.
>
>>>> Please let me know if the latest OLPC will not harm my OLPC 1.0 so
>>>> that I can test it for you.
>>>
>>> I'd be happy to tell you.  But first I need to know your installed
>>> firmware version (see above), and hardware serial number.  (Because
>>> there are some very early hardware versions that cannot be safely
>>> upgraded).
>>
>> So, my earlier guess is correct. Upgrade firmware can harm OLPC.
>> Lucky me, I don't upgrade to new firmware :)
>
> I said some very early versions cannot be safely upgraded, I didn't say
> it would harm OLPC.
>
>> BTW: I try looking fast again at boot and see hardware serial number:
>>
>> CSN748012AB
>
> I have just now tested with an XO-1, downgrading from Q2E45s (SVN HEAD),
> to Q2E25 (your version), then allowing the OLPC OS 11.2.0 development
> build os20 olpc.fth reflash to Q2E45 (stable), and there were no issues.
>
> Your serial number CSN748012AB should not be harmed by reflash to Q2E45,
> and this reflash would happen automatically if you installed the latest
> stable OLPC OS 10.1.3.  We would have heard about it by now if there was
> a problem with Q2E45 that harmed XO-1.
>
> If necessary, you may reflash back to Q2E25, but I cannot recommend this
> because of the significant problems that were fixed after Q2E25.
>
> You might ask your users what firmware version they are using.
>
> -- 
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>