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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:09:46 +0000
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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.