Firmware

This is for the 1 megabyte SPI flash, not the 512 megabyte nand flash used for the OS image and user data. The SPI flash contains the EC Firmware, VSA firmware, Open Firmware, LinuxBIOS, and 2k Manufacturing Data. See here for a map.

There is an automated installer that updates both the SPI flash and the nand flash. That would give you the latest stable versions of both. The automated installer can be adjusted to use one of the files below if you prefer.

There is also a manual update procedure for the SPI flash, C source code for a self-hosted Linux flash writer (may destroy the manufacturing data), instructions for flashing via Open Firmware, and a recovery procedure that requires the use of a serial cable and external oscillator.

Firmware Releases

• Q2B76 - 2007-03-09 Update release for B2 build OLPC Firmware Q2B76
• Q2B73 - 2007-02-16 Update release for B2 build OLPC Firmware Q2B73
• Q2B61 - 2007-02-02 Update release for B2-test build OLPC Firmware Q2B61 (last-minute EC changes)
• Q2B51 - 2007-01-26 Update release for B2-test build OLPC Firmware Q2B51
• Q2B43 - 2007-01-25 Update release for B2-test build OLPC Firmware Q2B43
• Q2B21 - 2007-01-14 Update release for B2-test build OLPC Firmware Q2B21
• Q2B20 - 2007-01-12 Update release for B2-test build OLPC Firmware Q2B20
• Q2B17 - 2007-01-05 Update release for B-test build OLPC Firmware Q2B17
• Q2B13 - 2006-12-29 Update release for B-test build OLPC Firmware Q2B13
• Q2B12 - 2006-12-29 Update release for B-test build OLPC Firmware Q2B12 (copy-nand fails)
• Q2B11 - 2006-12-25 Update release for B-test build OLPC Firmware Q2B11
• Q2A71 - 2006-12-21 Update release for B-test build OLPC Firmware Q2A71
• Q2A62 - 2006-12-11 Update release for B-test build OLPC Firmware Q2A62
• Q2A53 - 2006-12-01 Update release for B-test build OLPC Firmware Q2A53
• Q2A42 - 2006-11-12 Production release for B-test build OLPC Firmware Q2A42
• Q2A11 - 2006-10-17 "Unblocker" Interim Release OLPC Firmware Q2A11