[OLPC-devel] Re: Build image 76.

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:12:24PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> 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?

Indeed - it does not make any sense when you _think_ about it.

I have no clue what could be the real reason... IRQ routing? 

/me looks up the CS5536 manual