{"id":511,"date":"2011-04-30T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T10:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/?p=511"},"modified":"2011-04-30T10:40:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T10:40:22","slug":"olpc-weekly-update-2904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2011\/04\/olpc-weekly-update-2904\/","title":{"rendered":"OLPC weekly update 29\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to start posting brief weekly updates here to communicate what I&#8217;m working on as part of my work with <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\">OLPC<\/a>. To begin, here&#8217;s last week and the short easter week that came beforehand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An omission in fakeroot was preventing <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/Olpc-update\">olpc-update<\/a> from working (server-side) with <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/11.2.0\">11.2.0<\/a>. I spent some time working on this before realising this fakeroot limitation is well-documented and well argued in the man page, so I eventually resorted to applying a simple workaround in the build process. I identified <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.laptop.org\/ticket\/10843\">a better solution<\/a> that could be applied in future.<\/li>\n<li>Started olpc-update testing with the workaround applied &#8211; so far so good<\/li>\n<li>Tested Jon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.laptop.org\/ticket\/10594\">hardware cursor patch<\/a> for XO-1.5, found some issues so it is not enabled in the builds yet.<\/li>\n<li>Noticed that Andi Kleen has <a href=\"http:\/\/halobates.de\/blog\/p\/38\">picked up 2.6.35 maintenance<\/a>, merged his work into our kernel tree and did some brief testing<\/li>\n<li>Still working on our <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.laptop.org\/ticket\/10748\">libertas resume crash bug<\/a>, key aspect seems to be that the kernel identifies a transmit timeout (rightly or wrongly) during early resume.<\/li>\n<li>Looked at Gonzalo&#8217;s initial work to <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/User:Godiard\/Record\/NewToolbar#Ideas_to_discuss_the_UI_for_Record\">port record to the new Sugar toolbar model<\/a> &#8211; found some issues.<\/li>\n<li>Finished preparing 11 kernel patches to implement OLPC power management to send upstream next week<\/li>\n<li>Some bug triaging and preparing of 11.2.0 build 17.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to start posting brief weekly updates here to communicate what I&#8217;m working on as part of my work with OLPC. To begin, here&#8217;s last week and the short easter week that came beforehand: An omission in fakeroot was preventing olpc-update from working (server-side) with 11.2.0. I spent some time working on this before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olpc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}