[Olpc-open] debxo 0.2 release

[John Watlington]

Looks like an Open Firmware regression.
This works if I use laptop firmware q2e14 instead of q2e18.

Thanks !
wad

On Oct 25, 2008, at 3:14 AM, John Watlington wrote:

> Trying to installing either the gnome or awesome JFFS2 versions from
> an SD card formatted as ext2.
>
> Using laptop firmware q2e18, on two different machines, this fails  
> with:
> <....>:75: error writing to NAND Flash
> after writing 40 blocks.

That should be 0x40, not 40 decimal.

> What is going on ?
>
> wad
>
> On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Andres Salomon wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've prepared a new release of DebXO.  This has a number of new
>> features and desktops.
>>
>> NEW FEATURES:
>>
>>  - The JFFS2 images now have partition support.  While this shaves a
>> number of seconds off of the boot time, we can take better  
>> advantage of
>> it in the future (doing things like using UBIFS).  JFFS2 is well past
>> its prime; moving away from it will help performance a lot.
>>
>>  - EXT3 images have been added.  This allows for booting off of USB
>> and/or SD.  Note that the image size I chose is 2GB, so you'll need a
>> USB stick or SD card of at least that size.
>>
>>  - The kernel is now almost completely modular, and includes every
>> module under the sun.  For those of you with random USB hardware that
>> wanted to use it with DebXO.. if it's in 2.6.25, it should work with
>> DebXO.
>>
>>  - New desktops!  DebXO 0.1 only had a Gnome desktop; this release
>> includes KDE, LXDE, Sugar, Awesome and Gnome desktops.  I personally
>> run (and work on) the Gnome desktop.  Holger Levsen is to thank  
>> for the
>> Sugar and Awesome desktops.  James Cameron did the work for the  
>> KDE and
>> LXDE desktops.  A huge thanks to both of them!
>>
>> As far as bootup times, nand is still pretty absymal (due to jffs2);
>> however, SD booting takes 75 seconds from OFW to fully usable X.
>>
>>
>> INSTALLATION ONTO NAND FLASH:
>>
>> The release can be found here (note that the URL has changed):
>>
>> http://lunge.mit.edu/~dilinger/debxo-0.2/images/
>>
>> To install onto the XO's flash, download the debxo-$DESKTOP.jffs2.dat
>> and debxo-$DESKTOP.jffs2.img to a USB or SD stick (where $DESKTOP is
>> one of the various desktops - gnome, kde, lxde, sugar, or awesome).
>> Boot into OFW (make sure your XO is unlocked!), and run
>>
>> update-nand disk:\debxo-$DESKTOP.jffs2.img
>>
>> or
>>
>> update-nand sd:\debxo-$DESKTOP.jffs2.img
>>
>> (depending upon whether you downloaded to an SD or USB disk).  If  
>> your
>> SD or USB device is using a windows filesystem, you can figure out  
>> the
>> name of the image by running
>>
>> dir disk:\
>>
>> If update-nand spits out any errors, make sure you're running an
>> appropriately up-to-date version of OFW.  The q2d* series do not
>> support update-nand, and versions q2e18 and q2e19 are known to be  
>> buggy
>> with partitions.  Firmware and instructions for upgrading
>> can be found here:
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware
>>
>>
>> INSTALLATION ONTO SD/USB:
>>
>> To install onto an SD or USB device, download the
>> debxo-$DESKTOP.ext3.img.gz file, and run
>>
>> zcat debxo-$DESKTOP.ext3.img.gz > /dev/mmcblk0
>>
>> or
>>
>> zcat debxo-$DESKTOP.ext3.img.gz > /dev/sdX
>>
>> (depending upon whether you're writing to an SD or USB disk).  Note
>> that this will overwrite any data that is on the SD or USB disk.
>>
>>
>> USAGE:
>>
>> By default, a user 'olpc' is created (with no password, and sudo
>> access).  Some desktops automatically start a display manager and log
>> you in; some do not.  The root password is disabled by default.  This
>> is a stock Debian Lenny system with only a few modifications, so  
>> it can
>> obviously be tailored.
>>
>>
>> HACKING:
>>
>> xodist is the name of the collection of scripts that are used to
>> produce DebXO.  The git repository can be downloaded via:
>>
>> git clone git://lunge.mit.edu/git/xodist
>>
>> There's also a web interface to that:
>>
>> http://lunge.mit.edu/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xodist;a=summary
>>
>> There's a TODO file in the repository, but really... just scratch
>> whatever itch you happen to have.  Patches are much appreciated.
>> Additional desktops (XFCE, for example?), better handling of the
>> default user/password, boot/runtime optimizations, suggestions for
>> missing packages, etc..
>>
>>
>> CREDITS:
>>
>> Thanks to James Cameron and Holger Levsen for various
>> patches/tweaks/fixes, and to the various people who tested and  
>> provided
>> feedback.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Devel mailing list
>> Devel at lists.laptop.org
>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
>