From 7d5e669c4b12895da37e96156646c48d71def4ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 16:04:43 +0100
Subject: docs/misc/index.html: Notes about power management beeps

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 docs/misc/index.html | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/tasks.html      | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/docs/misc/index.html b/docs/misc/index.html
index 06db147c..f0cf4ed6 100644
--- a/docs/misc/index.html
+++ b/docs/misc/index.html
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 				<li><a href="#trisquel7_powertop">High Pitched Whining Noise on Idle (how to remove in Trisquel 7)</a></li>
 				<li><a href="#high_pitch_parabola">High Pitched Whining Noise on Idle (how to remove in Parabola)</a></li>
 				<li><a href="#serial">X60/T60: Serial port - how to use (for dock owners)</a></li>
+				<li><a href="#powerbeeps">Power Management Beeps on Thinkpads</a></li>
 				<li><a href="patch.html">Using diff and patch</a></li>
 				<li><a href="#get_edid_panelname">Get EDID: Find out the name (model) of your LCD panel</a></li>
 			</ul>
@@ -132,6 +133,31 @@ WantedBy=multi-user.target
 			
 	</div>
 
+	<div class="section" id="powerbeeps">
+		
+		<h1>Power Management Beeps on Thinkpads</h1>
+
+			<p>
+				When disconnecting or connecting the charger, a beep occurs.
+				When the battery goes to a critically low charge level,
+				a beep occurs. Nvramtool is included in libreboot, and can
+				be used to enable or disable this behaviour.
+			</p>
+
+			<p>
+				Disable or enable beeps when removing/adding the charger:<br/>
+				$ <b>sudo ./nvramtool -w power_management_beeps=Enable</b><br/>
+				$ <b>sudo ./nvramtool -w power_management_beeps=Disable</b>
+			</p>
+
+			<p>
+				Disable or enable beeps when battery is low:<br/>
+				$ <b>sudo ./nvramtool -w low_battery_beep=Enable</b><br/>
+				$ <b>sudo ./nvramtool -w low_battery_beep=Disable</b>
+			</p>
+		
+	</div>
+
 	<div class="section">
 
 		<h1 id="get_edid_panelname">Get EDID: Find out the name (model) of your LCD panel</h1>
diff --git a/docs/tasks.html b/docs/tasks.html
index 8a54321e..2214a360 100644
--- a/docs/tasks.html
+++ b/docs/tasks.html
@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@
 						<li>
 							<b>TODO: Add ARM candidates here (the above systems are all AMD).</b>
 							<ul>
-								<li>Look into the <i>rockchip</i> (rk3288. note: mali gpu. one or two blobs might need replacing) and <i>IBM 'POWER8' platforms</i></li>
+								<li>Look into the <i>rockchip</i> (rk3288. note: mali gpu. one or two blobs might need replacing.
+								see <a href="http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2015/05/26/report-on-chrome-os-upstreaming/">this page</a>
+								for example) and <i>IBM 'POWER8' platforms</i></li>
 							</ul>
 						</li>
 						<li><b>This list needs to expand!</b></li>
@@ -116,12 +118,21 @@
 	<div class="section">
 		<h1>Platform-specific bugs</h1>
 			<ul>
+				<li>
+					all thinkpads: When the system is running, plugging in an ethernet cable
+					doesn't always work (no network), you have to try several times. Booting with
+					an ethernet cable attached is reliable. Debug this and fix it.
+				</li>
 				<li>
 					Fix these issues on GM45/GS45 targets:
 					<ul>
 						<li>
 							X200: text-mode is broken. only framebuffer graphics work. Git-bisect is needed.
 						</li>
+						<li>
+							X60: on the latest coreboot-libre update lately (during June 2015), keyboard works intermittently.
+							Bisect and fix.
+						</li>
 						<li>
 							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.
@@ -212,6 +223,12 @@
 	<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
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