[OLPC-devel] Build image 76.

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:08:49PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti at redhat.com> [060824 20:51]:
> > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:31:23PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > > Interesting.  I'm glad we now know what was going on.
> > > 
> > > In theory, I would think the device driver should have responsibility
> > > for enabling the power on devices; in Linux has knowledge of the bus
> > > topology.
> > 
> > Not really - in this case its responsability of the BIOS to power up the
> > device.
> > 
> > Richard, Ronald, please fixup LinuxBIOS to enable the WLAN_EC pin.
> 
> I agree, to some extent.
> 
> But: Could the driver save power by disabling the pin? In this case 
> it might become interesting to have the driver know about it.

Might be useful... The firmware already supports deep sleep mode which
allegedly consumes very little power, though.