On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Karl Goetz
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On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:19:54 -0400
Daniel Clark <
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> FYI no code yet, but promises that may help the effort to get OpenEC
> working on Lemote Yeeloong...
> The exception is because EnE has not released the low-level details on
> the PS/2 interface in the KB3930, so there will be some code that is
Does anyone know what functionality is lost by this code being
proprietary? (if we removed it).
kk
> not available -- relative to the codebase this is a very small amount
> of code. The GPL licensing exception will allow for linking against
> this closed code. We're going to investigate ways to move away from
> this code in the future. (As far as we're aware, this will make the
> XO-1.75 the first laptop with open embedded controller code!)
FYI actual location of the code and some other interesting info. I'll also go update
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OpenEC with this location as the location currently mentioned has really old code (2009).
Perhaps this will also be helpful with OpenEC on Lemote Yeeloong work (FSF donated a few Yeeloongs to people who wanted to work on that a while ago, but as far as I know there has not been a lot of progress there.)
cjb | (it's actually the repo we're using to bring up the 1.75 right now)
dilinger | cjb: is this xo-1 EC minus battery code, or written from scratch?
cjb | dilinger: battery code's in there, AIUI
cjb | the patent was on the NiMH battery charging, and we don't use those batteries anymore, only LiFePO4
dilinger | cjb: awesome
dilinger | so is that imported into OFW now, or do you still build the EC separately?
cjb | on 1.75 they're more independent than before
cjb | they don't flash a new EC at the same time as flashing a new OFW
cjb | so they aren't built together
dilinger | interesting
cjb | OFW also isn't the first thing that runs anymore
cjb | the mmp2 has two cores, security processor and the main CPU (PJ4)
cjb | comes up in cforth on the SP, that loads from SPI into SRAM and releases the PJ4
cjb | the SP keeps running
cjb | which is neat because you can make it watch a GPIO/button
cjb | and if the PJ4 hangs, you hit that button, the SP takes over the serial port again, and it has full access to RAM and peripheral state for debugging
cjb | so there's an always-available method for getting dmesg after a crash
dilinger | SP continues running OFW the entire time?
dilinger | is it drawing full power, or is it some kind of low power mode (similar to the low power EC mode)?
cjb | (cforth, not OFW)
cjb | yeah, I think it's drawing power
cjb | we'll have to work out how that's supposed to work later
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