John,<br>It sounds like you recommend that Quanta put 624 on the laptops at the end of mfg test.<br><br>Is that true?<br><br>If so, I would support that decision as well; and we don't need to go through the release testing for 625.
<br><br>Regards,<br>Kim<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Watlington</b> <<a href="mailto:wad@laptop.org">wad@laptop.org</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>There shouldn't be any problems if 624 is used for MP.<br>The testing process is there for a reason, and should be strictly<br>followed.<br><br>The DCON bug that 625 fixes (#4479) will only show up on a small<br>number of machines, and it's frequency is low enough in normal
<br>operation of our current software (where we only support sleep,<br>not automatic suspend) that it will be an extremely rare complaint<br>(roughly one tenth of the machines will show the problem once<br>every 5-20K resumes --- that's a lot of button pushes!). When the
<br>display is powered down automatically for power conservation,<br>the code path should reinitialize the DCON correctly.<br><br>It is a low severity bug, the user hits any key and the problem<br>clears up.<br>RMA requests for machines showing this problem can be answered with a
<br>request that they upgrade their software.<br><br>John<br><br>On Nov 4, 2007, at 12:32 AM, Richard A. Smith wrote:<br><br>> Jim Gettys wrote:<br>><br>>>><br>>>>> Ship.1 are the bits Quanta is currently putting on
<br>>>>> machines in<br>>>>> the<br>>>>> factory. It is Build 624; Firmware Q2D03.<br>>>>><br>>>>><br>>>>> We are putting build 625 on mass production machines starting
<br>>>>> Monday,<br>>>>> because this addresses a suspected bug, the failure to<br>>>>> initialize the<br>>>>> DCON registers when power is re-applied to DCON. Build 625 is in
<br>>>>> testing by Quanta right now.<br>><br>> I just spoke with Arnold about the current 624/625 testing status.<br>><br>> 624 testing was completed by Quanta and is ready to go. They were not<br>
> able to start testing 625 because there was no signed image.<br>><br>> Current plan is for 624 to go onto the machines.<br>><br>> _If_ we claim that 625 are the new bits and sign them for use on MP<br>> machines then Quanta can start testing 625 on Monday morning.
<br>><br>> They _might_ be able to complete the testing in time for MP but Arnold<br>> says it will involve a lot of work from the .tw testing team.<br>><br>> Gary and I will be headed to CSMC at 8pm Changshu time to look a the
<br>> results of the > 24 hour DCON test. I'll report back the results and<br>> then the team can make the call on going with 624 or trying to push<br>> for<br>> 625.<br>><br>> --<br>> Richard Smith <
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