Our idea is that just our technical stuff (and maybe volunteers with certain knowledge) could update the firmware.<br><br>But this process will take us at least two or three months. So, we want to release our new software version trying to make it compatible with both firmware version Q2E41 and Q2E45.<br>
<br>You have mentioned some bugs that could affect us:<br><br> * #9100 (machines hanging during boot)<br> * EC firmware which fixes issues with resuming from suspend from the touchpad<br> * bugs in selftest diagnostics<br>
* others that could affect OFW's ability to install new releases<br><br>We couldn't reproduce the bug #9100, and maybe we could accept the price of the other bugs that you have mentioned.<br><br>However we have another problem in the keyboard mapping: the user couldn't use certain special keys, for example the "frame" key.<br>
<br>I know that in the past the keyboard mapping configuration has changed from setolpckeys utility to HAL.<br><br>The workaround that we found is the use of "setolpckeys" in our F11 image. If we copy /etc/udev/rules.d/96-olpc-keyboard.rules and /usr/sbin/setolpckeys all the key combination work.<br>
<br>My question is, the use of setolpckeys in our F11 build could be dangerous or incompatible with the keyboard mapping based on HAL?<br><br>Regards, Daniel.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Paul Fox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">daniel wrote:<br>
> Hi! We are using a software image based on dextrose, I know that the<br>
> official OLPC software image is different, but for this question I think<br>
> that is the same.<br>
> We want to install dextrose (suppose 10.1.3 image) with the firmware q2e42.<br>
> What do you think? This is possible or we will have problems with this<br>
> combination of firmware and software image?<br>
<br>
</div>you can read the release notes for the firmware releases between<br>
q2e42 and q2e45 here:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e45" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e45</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e44" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e44</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e43" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e43</a><br>
<br>
i'm sure the release will run. but q2e45 in particular contains<br>
a fix for machines hanging during boot (d.l.o #9100) as well<br>
as EC firmware which fixes issues with resuming from suspend from<br>
the touchpad. you can also see that q2e43 fixed very many bugs --<br>
many of them are related to the selftest diagnostics, but others<br>
could affect OFW's ability to install new releases.<br>
<br>
we don't issue new firmware lightly, and of course we recommend<br>
that deployments always use the latest firmware.<br>
<br>
paul<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> Regards, Daniel.<br>
><br>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
> From: Daniel Castelo <<a href="mailto:dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy">dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy</a>><br>
> Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:25 PM<br>
> Subject: Dextrose and Firmware q2e42<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:dextrose@lists.sugarlabs.org">dextrose@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> We have delivered dextrose 1.0 for our XO 1.5 machines, we want to release<br>
> this version to XO 1.0 one's, but based on some bad experiences that we had<br>
> in the past we aren't allowed to update the firmware (problems with some<br>
> machines that remained broken after the process). The question is, if we<br>
> have the firmware q2e42 installed, will dextrose (version 1) run properly in<br>
> this machines?<br>
> After a first test ( ten minutes one) seem that works, but I suppose that we<br>
> could have some problems if we don't update the firmware to the last<br>
> version.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
> Daniel<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Ing. Daniel Castelo<br>
> Plan Ceibal - Área Técnica<br>
> Avda. Italia 6201<br>
> Montevideo - Uruguay.<br>
> Tel.: 2 601 57 73 Interno 2228<br>
> E-mail : <a href="mailto:dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy">dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy</a><br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ing. Daniel Castelo<br>Plan Ceibal - Área Técnica<br>Avda. Italia 6201<br>Montevideo - Uruguay.<br>Tel.: 2 601 57 73 Interno 2228<br>E-mail : <a href="mailto:dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy" target="_blank">dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy</a><br>