[Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Ricardo Carrano <carrano at laptop.org> wrote:
>> In short, I need an overview of what works and what doesn't with F9
>> stock kernel and 22.p18. So far:
>>
>>  - Deepak mentions issues w/multicast
>
> I'm not sure exactly of what we're talking about here. Could you or
> Deepak clarify what are these issues?

On this same thread, yesterday... Deepak Saxena <dsaxena at laptop.org> wrote:
> For the XO 8.2 kernel we had to pull forward some patches from the stable
> 2.6.22 branch that are not upstream to get multicast RX to work properly
> (#7319).


>>  - There are odd bugs with WPA
>
> In fact, we are fixing timing issues that prevent the XO to connect to
> certain WPA access points under certain conditions (timing in 802.11
> is influenced by external conditions too, hence the randomness and
> intermittent behavior and the need of using "certain")

Offtopic datapoint: here in my NZ office all signals are WPA encoded,
from various APs I don't control (but can use). "Certain" is
unfortunately around 80-90% of the cases.

> There are other possible hot areas that should not be a problem for
> the XS (as suspend/resume interactions with wireless and problems in
> some XO's wlan modules (do not enumerate -  still not clear to me if
> this is related to the firmware)
>
> If there are other bugs (and there is always corner cases) they are
> bellow my radar now.

Is trac being used reasonably to track firmware issues? Checked
earlier today - 'component = wireless' and 'summary contains libertas'
kinda sorta give an overview. False matches and untriaged issues
abound so it doesn't seem like anyone's looking at that "view" of the
data.

(Me, I only sleep when by this trac "view" tells me to:
https://dev.laptop.org/query?group=status&milestone=xs-0.5 )

Perhaps Michails has a spreadsheet or wikipage hiding somewhere? ;-)
You guys have been doing a ton of development (both features,
bugfixes) dealing with several moving parts -- notes of "what works
where" and "what clearly barfs" must be collected somewhere.

cheers,


m
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