[OLPC-AU] [Testing] Testing Summary: 3 March 2012 - Auckland, New Zealand

[Richard A. Smith]

On 03/13/2012 03:55 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:44:27AM -0400, Richard A. Smith wrote:
>> On 03/03/2012 09:01 AM, Paul Fox wrote:
>>>   >   didn???t take care to record what was happening when. Would such a test be
>>>   >   useful? My power log collector does not work on XO-1.75 :(
>>>
>>> what causes it not to work?  we'll definitely want to fix that.  as for keeping
>>> better track of what was happening when -- i think your general appraisal, above,
>>> is good for now.
>>
>> I believe that the log collector is based on tiny linux so it won't
>> work on an arm arch.
>>
>> The OFW on 1.75 can read the host filesystem ext3/ext4 with a clean
>> or dirty journal.  So a collector for 1.75 can be written directly
>> in ofw using the auto run of /boot/olpc.fth on external media.
>
> We might also use djgpp's XO-1.75 rescue image, which is similar to Tiny
> Core Linux as far as basic functionality goes.

That might be easier for them to modify.  That plus a olpc.fth that 
checked what type of machine they were on and loaded the proper kernel 
would make a collector that worked on all the generations of machines 
they have.

-- 
Richard A. Smith  <richard at laptop.org>
One Laptop per Child