I got 2.0.5 of scapa out the door on Friday. It is currently under a long term testing, both here and in London. There is one bug left were I see loads of duplicated packets on CNN, and only on CNN. It is really wierd I posted on linuxtv.org mailing list and see if anyone else sees anything similar.
Since Christmas I’ve been clearing the remaining bugs out of the Gateway. This is now almost ready for release. Just to do a build and run through the regression tests.
This is also a unified release for the two hardware platforms and will make releases much easier in future. During the builds I’ve been playing crawl and now I’m hopelessly addicted to it’s silliness.
Scapa was at long last released to world. The core has been working for a very long time but a complete overhaul of the user interface and the usual feature creep delayed release until the end of the quarter. Almost immediately we have found new bugs which require an urgent fix. One is in my bootloader code trivial but was stopping upgrades from some tftp servers, and not getting ip addresses fr om some dhcp servers. The bootloader now acts completely according to RFC for both protocols. Phew!
boardmon monitors the temperature and fans of the scapa board. It logs the temperature and fan fails to a log file, reports high temps and fan fails to a manager, and shuts down the board on a high temperature. Other features may be added in due course. This little program was the first bit of new programming I’ve done in over a month. I’ve basically be testing and doing system analysis work during that time. It is nice to get to do the part of the job I enjoy most. And I am in such a better mood because of it. Maybe I need to pick up a debian package and start hacking on that in my spare time.
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