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authorFrancis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-07-12 18:27:09 (EDT)
committer Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2015-07-12 18:27:09 (EDT)
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docs/tasks.html: clean up
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-rw-r--r--docs/hcl/gm45_lcd.html50
-rw-r--r--docs/tasks.html75
2 files changed, 59 insertions, 66 deletions
diff --git a/docs/hcl/gm45_lcd.html b/docs/hcl/gm45_lcd.html
index 861e465..a6956d8 100644
--- a/docs/hcl/gm45_lcd.html
+++ b/docs/hcl/gm45_lcd.html
@@ -186,6 +186,31 @@ panel powered up
</pre>
<p>
+ Another incompatible (T400) screen:
+ </p>
+<pre>
+No size specified (using byte-data access)
+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 0123456789abcdef
+00: XX ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 30 ae 33 40 00 00 00 00 X.......0?3@....
+10: 00 0f 01 03 80 1e 13 78 ea cd 75 91 55 4f 8b 26 .??????x??u?UO?&amp;
+20: 21 50 54 00 00 00 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 !PT...??????????
+30: 01 01 01 01 01 01 b0 27 a0 60 51 84 2d 30 30 20 ???????'?`Q?-00
+40: 36 00 2f be 10 00 00 19 d5 1f a0 40 51 84 1a 30 6./??..????@Q??0
+50: 30 20 36 00 2f be 10 00 00 19 00 00 00 0f 00 90 0 6./??..?...?.?
+60: 0a 32 90 0a 28 14 01 00 4c a3 42 44 00 00 00 fe ?2??(??.L?BD...?
+70: 00 4c 54 4e 31 34 31 57 44 2d 4c 30 35 0a 00 32 .LTN141WD-L05?.2
+80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+
+</pre>
+
+ <p>
For comparison, here is a working display (T400 screen, but was
connected to a T500. Some T500 displays also work, but no EDID
available on this page yet):
@@ -265,6 +290,31 @@ waiting for panel powerup
panel powered up
</pre>
+ <p>
+ Another compatible T400 screen:
+ </p>
+<pre>
+trisquel@trisquel:~$ sudo i2cdump -y 2 0x50
+No size specified (using byte-data access)
+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 0123456789abcdef
+00: 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 30 ae 31 40 00 00 00 00 ........0?1@....
+10: 00 12 01 03 80 1e 13 78 ea b3 85 95 58 53 8a 28 .??????x????XS?(
+20: 25 50 54 00 00 00 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 %PT...??????????
+30: 01 01 01 01 01 01 26 1b 00 7d 50 20 16 30 30 20 ??????&?.}P ?00
+40: 36 00 30 be 10 00 00 18 8b 16 00 7d 50 20 16 30 6.0??..???.}P ?0
+50: 30 20 36 00 30 be 10 00 00 18 00 00 00 0f 00 81 0 6.0??..?...?.?
+60: 0a 32 81 0a 28 14 01 00 30 e4 28 01 00 00 00 fe ?2??(??.0?(?...?
+70: 00 4c 50 31 34 31 57 58 33 2d 54 4c 52 31 00 d8 .LP141WX3-TLR1.?
+80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................
+</pre>
+
</div>
<div class="section">
diff --git a/docs/tasks.html b/docs/tasks.html
index cf5af95..e52076e 100644
--- a/docs/tasks.html
+++ b/docs/tasks.html
@@ -109,9 +109,6 @@
which afaik is free-sw. For GRUB, see <a href="https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Grub2">https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Grub2</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
- <li>
- TRS-80 Model 100: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
- </li>
<li><b>This list needs to expand!</b></li>
</ul>
</li>
@@ -188,11 +185,14 @@
X200/X60: battery drained even while system is "off" on some systems. investigate.
Could just be the Ethernet controller waiting for a Wake-on-LAN frame.
'ethtool -s net0 wol d' disables wake on lan until the next boot. There are a lot of ways to make it permanent: netctl. systemd, udev, cron
+ - wake on lan was tested, and isn't the issue. It is probably how coreboot handles power off state
+ (see the code that handles power_on_after_fail)
</li>
<li>
Sound (internal speaker) broken on T500 (works in lenovobios). external speaker/headphones work.
- probably a different hda_verb
- <b>different HDA verbs are now used, test this again</b>
+ - worked while system was disassambled, but booted (loose), stopped working when re-assembling. Not sure what's going on here.
</li>
<li>
Fix remaining incompatible LCD panels in native graphics on T500 and T400.
@@ -276,21 +276,6 @@
<div class="section">
<h1>Build system</h1>
<ul>
- <li>
- add <i>resources/checksums/*</i> and update it whenever updating the modules
- (coreboot, flashrom, etc) or updating patches.
- For each download script, make it check the sha512 hashes of all the files, to ensure
- that the files match the checksums.
- </li>
- <li>re-enable building of txtmode images (get memtest86 working again first, and fix gm45 txtmode)</li>
- <li>
- When downloading coreboot/grub/memtest/etc using the download scripts, it currently does
- not check the integrity of these sources at all. Libreboot releases are signed, but
- what can be done to improve it is to check the sha512sums of all files downloaded
- by these scripts (which are in the git repository, but not the release archives,
- because the release archives already include these sources). Do this for all
- non-integrated modules used in libreboot.
- </li>
<li>Make memtest86+ build using coreboot's own crossgcc toolchain. Currently,
memtest86+ doesn't even work at all when cross-compiled using the toolchain in x86-64 trisquel7</li>
<li>
@@ -332,13 +317,6 @@
</li>
</ul>
</li>
- <li>
- build/release/util currently fails on Parabola (it only works well in Trisquel).
- - this should be made portable. Build (cross-compile all of the dependencies from upstream,
- and include a <i>ccs/</i> release archive. Then use those for dependencies to cross-compile
- everything (this should make portability easy, and there aren't a lot of dependencies
- for the utilities).
- </li>
</ul>
<p><a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page.</a></p>
</div>
@@ -403,30 +381,16 @@
Get them for the following remaining boards: X60, T60, macbook21, R400
</li>
<li>
- There are no instructions for how to use the GRUB terminal to find
- a grub.cfg manually, or how to boot an installed GNU/Linux manually,
- so some users get stuck after the initial installation of libreboot
- not knowing how to boot the GNU/Linux system that they had before installing.
- Fix that. (also, promote the FSF-endorsed distros while you do it)
- </li>
- <li>
Add guides for GM45 laptops in docs/security/
</li>
<li>
Add guides for GM45 laptops in docs/hardware/
</li>
<li>
- Convert documentation to Sphinx/ReST
- <ul>
- <li>Translations are needed for the documentation and the main website.
- Most people don't speak English as a first language.</li>
- </ul>
+ Convert documentation to use Latex (or whatever the GNU project requires) as source.
</li>
<li>
- LUKS key in initramfs: Add Trisquel documentation for docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html.
- </li>
- <li>
- LPC PLCC flashing guide is needed:
+ LPC (eg PLCC socket) flashing guide is needed:
<a href="http://blogs.coreboot.org/files/2013/07/vultureprog_shuttle_sbs.jpg">image</a>,
<a href="http://blogs.coreboot.org/files/2013/08/vultureprog_probing.jpg">image</a>,
<a href="http://blogs.coreboot.org/files/2013/06/superboosted2.jpg">image</a> -
@@ -461,6 +425,10 @@
<li>
Set up a routine (project-wise) for testing each system with the latest kernel version.
</li>
+ <li>
+ Define properly how to maintain libreboot (things to look out for, things to do on a release). It's somewhat
+ documented now, but it's not perfect. Delegate tasks (to people that are reliable).
+ </li>
</ul>
<p><a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page.</a></p>
</div>
@@ -481,31 +449,6 @@
<p><a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page.</a></p>
</div>
-
-<!--
-
-http://vzimmer.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/firmware-related-blogs.html
-^ list of links to look out for (news items)
-
-also:
-https://paste.debian.net/plainh/b3699c60
-(T400 EDID dump)
-
-TODO: tidy up the docs to make it clear that EDID dumps are needed
-
-
-my T400 panel (1280x800. working):
-https://paste.debian.net/plainh/776705d5
-
-look at this patch when it merges, see if it affects anything
-http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/10742/
-
-todo: investigate why X60/T60 still uses power and drain battery
-when powered off (also affects X200)
-might be the code that handles power_on_after_fail nvram option
-wake on lan was tested, it doesn't seem to be the cause
-
--->
<div class="section">