ECO/8.1.3

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This is a software release.

Summary

Title

8.1.3 OS

Description

The OS upgrade is to include support for the Amharic keyboard.

Date proposed

2008-08-31

Priority

High. The Ethiopian deployment starts on the first week of September

Champion

Sayamindu Dasgupta

Root Cause

This was caused due to wrongly formatted and incomplete Compose data in libX11. This was undetected since prior to build 705 the Amharic keyboard got no testing at all, due to the issue described at http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6945#comment:8

Effect from the user perspective

Currently with build 711, no user is able to write characters such as ሁ ,ሂ,ሃ, ሄ, ህ. This affects all users using the Amharic keyboard.

Proposed Fix

This issue was fixed in the 8.2 build. I have backported all the changes required to the OLPC-2 branches in Koji, and created new packages. The packages needed to solve the issue are

• libX11-1.1.3-4.git20071123
• olpc-utils-0.74-3
• xkeyboard-config-1.1-21.20071130cvs

We are also going to update

• bootfw-q2e15-1.olpc2.unsigned

since the C3 fix attempted in 8.1.2 (with firmware q2e12) was botched.

Reviewers

triage team

Testing: 1 hour smoke of 711 performed by DanielDrake, test passed

Special testing required

Testing of the Amharic keyboard layout required. This includes testing of compose characters, eg: characters ሁሂሃሄህ whose "base" is ሀ

Discussion

Comments/discussion

Checklist

ECO 7 checklist

Rollout

Ethiopia

Relevant Trac items

<trac>6945</trac> Ethiopian keyboards don't provide English characters.

This was fixed in 708, but it fixes only half of the problem.

<trac>7474</trac> Compose keys not working for Amharic.

This was fixed in Joyride 2330. I have backported the relevant patches.

<trac>7964</trac> C3 laptops sometimes identified as pre-B3.

Description of the patches applied to the new RPMs in this build

• olpc_7474_libX11.patch: In package libX11, this fixes the Compose file for Amharic, and adds an entry for Amharic in the compose.dir file
• load_xim_conditionally.patch: In package olpc-utils, this patch makes olpc-utils load the XIM GTK Input module conditionally (only if LANG is Amharic)
• xkeyboard-config-olpc-et_fix_compose.patch: This patch modifies the et symbol file in xkeyboard-config so that normal vowels in the US English keyboard work
• xkeyboard-config-olpc-group.patch: This patch modifies the group symbol file in xkeyboard-config so that the Khmer keyboard layout load correctly.