On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:00:47PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > Furthermore, I might add that the entire reason this part was chosen for > OLPC was because it _is_ fullmac. > > To drive down power consumption, the OLPC puts the host CPU to sleep but > keeps the 8388 powered on. That consumes around 400mW max. But it > allows the 8388 to continue routing other laptops' packets over the mesh > *while the host CPU is asleep*.
We're not going to put a lot of junk into the kernel just because the OLPC folks decide to do odd powermanagment schemes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
