From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@ltc.com>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, Thomas Capricelli <orzel@kde.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mounting a in-ROM filesystem efficiently
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 01:27:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011218012755.C37@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1011213142534.1037A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> <08d701c18412/mnt/tmp/sendmee91d2c0601010a@prefect>
In-Reply-To: <08d701c18412/mnt/tmp/sendmee91d2c0601010a@prefect>; from brad@ltc.com on Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:09:16PM -0500
Hi!
> > There are many arguments, but I don't think power consumption is
> > one of them. Whatever they use for RAM on the palm machines allows
> > the machines to run a week on 4 'aa' -size batteries. Maybe they
> > grab kinetic energy from keystrokes using flea-generators ^;).
>
> No flea-generators that I know of. :-)
>
> SDRAM, even in self-refresh mode, does draw considerable current. But then
> again so does decompressing stuff from ROM all the time.
Well.. at least decompressing from rom does not eat power when not doing
*something*.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-21 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-13 16:02 Mounting a in-ROM filesystem efficiently Thomas Capricelli
2001-12-13 16:22 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-13 16:41 ` Thomas Capricelli
2001-12-13 17:10 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-13 18:02 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-13 18:14 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-13 18:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-13 18:52 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-13 19:41 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-13 20:09 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
[not found] ` <08d701c18412/mnt/tmp/sendmee91d2c0601010a@prefect>
2001-12-18 1:27 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-12-14 11:03 ` Catalin Marinas
2001-12-13 17:49 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-13 18:06 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-13 20:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-13 20:52 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-14 9:45 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-14 15:27 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-14 16:51 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-14 17:02 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-14 17:03 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-14 17:12 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-14 17:16 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-14 17:27 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2001-12-16 9:51 ` Christoph Rohland
2002-01-23 8:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] <20011214072540.D7457@duron.intern.kubla.de>
2001-12-17 13:24 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-18 12:10 ` Helge Hafting
2001-12-18 14:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-18 14:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-18 15:21 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-12-18 20:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-18 16:27 ` Kent Borg
2001-12-18 17:05 ` Herman Oosthuysen
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