dsd’s weblog

• Fixed auto-detection of search language on default browser homepage
• Upstreamed a patch from Walter Bender to fix some issues with the OLPC Azerty Keyboard.
• Fixed XO-1 mesh networking incompatibility with new kernels
• Fixed the root disk partition showing up as a “OLPCRoot” user mount
• Worked around a suspend/resume instability in the libertas wifi driver.
• Fixed recording video in high-quality mode on XO-1.5

This week I’ve been working on OLPC’s upcoming 12.1.0 software release:

• Diagnosed a Physics activity crash with the grab tool.
• Fixed a boot-time race with audio level configuration.
• Fixed a libertas crash with 11d handling.
• Fixed the “Search OLPC” functionality on the default homepage
• Fixed /home/olpc permissions on upgrade from pre-F17 and an imperfection with pristine update.
• Tested activation under 12.1.0.

• 12.1.0 moved into bugfixes-only mode, and Sugar activities have been frozen.
• Fixed some 12.1.0 odds-and-ends: RPM on XO-1, unclean rootfs handling on shutdown, re-enabled XO-1.75 serial console, got a couple of wakeup event tracking patches upstream.

A number of difficult problems this week, but some progress was made.

• Helped diagnosis of an audio codec driver problem with our the XO-1.75 kernel upgrade.
• Attempted diagnosis of a Fedora 17 ARM build problem with the llvm package, which was blocking a lot of things. We have a workaround now.
• Investigated the challenges around getting Flash and Java working on a GTK+-3 WebKit.
• Found a workaround to fix gcc crashyness on the XO-1.75, reported to Marvell.
• Diagnosed a WebKit crash on ARM, related to the javascript engine.