12.1.0 devel build 3 released, for XO-1.5 and XO-1

[Peter Robinson]

The "It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life and
I'm...." release.

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE AIMED AT CORE SUGAR/DEVICE DEVELOPERS

This is the first build with support for gtk3 activies and we have
lovely examples with working Browse and Read :-D

Other than that we have the usual rawhide updates including various
bits we need for sugar gtk3 including fixes in the gtk3 css themes and
various fixes and improvements for introspection support. Some other
improvements include for this round of rawhide updates include libpng
1.5 which should include some perf improvements.

With the festive period coming to a close the next month will ramp up
rawhide changes. The big one being gcc 4.7.0 due to hit in the coming
week or so with a mass rebuild following soon after.

Some of the details of this release are:
- Fedora rawhide (it will become Fedora 17)
- Sugar 0.95.3
- sugar-toolkit-gtk3
- Browse 130... webkit based and it works!
- Read 94.... and it works!
- gnome 3.3.3
- likely a lot of other bits I've missed

Download from:
http://build.laptop.org/12.1.0/os3/

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus(a)bga.com&gt; wrote:
>  On an XO-1, build os3 was quite unusable until I disabled power
> management.
>   All too soon after initial boot-up, the XO-1 would lock up -- it would not
>  accept keystrokes (even though the Power LED was not blinking);  after a
>  couple of seconds it would not perform cursor movement either.
>
>  I am no longer nimble - it felt to me that I had to really *rush* to My
>  Settings to deactivate suspend/resume before their effect was to lock me
>  out. 
Weird, I've not seen that on my XO-1 at all, its just been sitting
there running for over 24 hours without issues.

Peter

[Mikus Grinbergs]

On an XO-1, build os3 was quite unusable until I disabled power 
management.  All too soon after initial boot-up, the XO-1 would lock up 
-- it would not accept keystrokes (even though the Power LED was not 
blinking);  after a couple of seconds it would not perform cursor 
movement either.

I am no longer nimble - it felt to me that I had to really *rush* to My 
Settings to deactivate suspend/resume before their effect was to lock me 
out.

mikus

Unannounced 12.1.0 devel build 4 does not boot on XO-1

[Mikus Grinbergs]

Used 'update-nand' to write os4 onto XO-1.  With Q2F07 I get:

  |  Boot device: /nandflash:\boot\olpc.fth  Arguments:
  |  Boot device: /pci/nandflash@c\boot\vmlinuz  Arguments:
  |  <buffer@ffb5d500>:88:
  |  Can't open boot device

With os3 (and Q2F07) the two "Boot device" lines are followed by

  !  Loading ramdisk image ...


mikus

Unannounced 12.1.0 devel build 4 does not boot on XO-1

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus(a)bga.com&gt; wrote:
>  Used 'update-nand' to write os4 onto XO-1.  With Q2F07 I
> get:
>
>   |  Boot device: /nandflash:\boot\olpc.fth  Arguments:
>   |  Boot device: /pci/nandflash@c\boot\vmlinuz  Arguments:
>   |  <buffer@ffb5d500>:88:
>   |  Can't open boot device
>
>  With os3 (and Q2F07) the two "Boot device" lines are followed by
>
>   !  Loading ramdisk image ... 
There was a reason it was not announced, it has a number of issues but
was for core developers to verify the current state of F17 and fix a
number of issues before a widely announced release later in the week.

Peter