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

[Tom Parker]

On 13/03/12 21:00, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> On 03/13/2012 03:55 AM, James Cameron wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:44:27AM -0400, Richard A. Smith wrote:
>>> 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.
>
The power log collector already chooses what to do based on XO-1 or 
XO-1.5, adding an XO-1.75 should be easy.

Do you have a reference on how to copy files from the host to the 
external media using OFW? That would presumably be quicker than booting 
the linux kernel? Otherwise, do you have a link to the djgpp rescue image?