Hi<br><br>Will this insurance thing defend against failed bios upgrade only ?<br>Or will this thing help when Linux wouldn't boot or X or sugar can not start after software update ?<br><br>Gabor<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 1/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mitch Bradley</b> <<a href="mailto:wmb@firmworks.com">wmb@firmworks.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>Ivan Krstiæ wrote:<br>> ron minnich wrote:<br>><br>>> Question is, does OLPC want to look at this type of brick insurance?<br>>><br>><br>> Yes, I've just been waiting until we have a clearer idea of the final
<br>> size of OFW before asking Mitch about it.<br>><br>Agreed.<br><br>For now it won't help much because the EC code, which is a single point<br>of failure, has to be upgraded so often due to changes from Quanta.
<br>When that settles down, we should do something along the lines that Ron<br>suggests. There are quite a few ways it can be done. We'll need to<br>consider the characteristics of the FLASH device and the likely failure
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