[OLPC-devel] Re: Build image 76.

Jordan Crouse jordan.crouse at amd.com
Thu Aug 24 19:12:24 EDT 2006


On 24/08/06 15:51 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 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 know its late to say this, but it has to be said - I'm pretty sure that
Insyde wouldn't have done this, so why would it be the delta between a working
system and a non working system?

Jordan





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