[Testing] Testing Summary, Auckland - 28 April 2012

[James Cameron]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:17:06AM +1200, Tom Parker wrote:
> power log collection does not work on rosella with Q3B22 and au215,
> it fails with <buffer at ....>:194: Can?t open directory. After
> updating to Q3C05 without reflashing the operating system, the power
> log collector works. Rolling back to Q3B22 restores the original
> error. This strongly suggests it is firmware related.

I've looked into this just now.

The failing command is

	ok dir int:2,\

which is a directory listing command for the second partition.

Q3B22 predates the addition of ext3 or ext4 filesystem support to
OpenFirmware, so it won't work for accessing the second partition on the
microSD card when that filesystem isn't ext2.  OLPC OS 11.3.0 does not
use ext2 on that partition, and presumably nor does au215.

You should upgrade to Q3C05 and stay on that version or later.  Q3C05 is
compatible and supported with all versions of OLPC OS and derivatives
such as au215.  If you isolate a problem to Open Firmware on those OS,
we will try to fix it.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/