[OLPC-devel] Re: NAND flash controller speed.

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 16:46 -0600, Tom Sylla wrote:
> Why is the OLPC platform running PCI at 33MHz? We noticed this a while 
> back, while we evaluated the OLPC design. I don't believe our evaluation 
> has made it to the OLPC team yet (and I didn't realize PCI performance 
> made such a difference for flash). Was the PCI speed changed on the 
> A-test board? I don't see the reason not to run 66MHz PCI on the OLPC 
> platform. 

I don't know, but my first guess at the reason would be power
consumption. How much more power does it all consume at 66MHz?

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