[Olpc-uk] OLPC UK Library Update 20090505

[Martin Dengler]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 07:00:57PM +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> Martin Dengler schrieb:
>> - All laptops have developer keys, have been flashed to latest
>>   firmware (Q2E41), and have the latest Sugar-on-a-Stick build
>>   (Rawhide/Fedora 11 + OLPC kernel) installed.
>
> Interesting, any guides as to how that's done?

Yes - there are a few guides that involve the "livecd-iso-to-xo"
script.  One just runs that on an iso and it spits out a jffs2 image
suitable for copy-nand'ing on to the XO.  Of course the
livecd-iso-to-disk can be used to make an SD card for booting off of
if one doesn't want to overwrite the NAND.

> It was my understanding that Sugar-on-a-Stick isn't expected to run
> well on the XO before F12 gets released in autumn. But it looks like
> I missed something here...

You haven't missed anything - I have my own definition of "well":

"working well [enough for the Libary]" means:

1) having a version of Sugar and activities such that patches will be
   trivial to review and accept

2) having working wireless, power management, XO keys (most), dcon
   drivers

3) having development tools like pylint and git pre-installed

4) sound and mesh networking not working

I'm not recommending it for deployments/pilots.  But it's coming along
quite well for developer use.

> Thanks,
> Christoph

Martin
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