[Arm-netbook] [advice sought] EOMA68 kernel support

Justin Cormack justin at specialbusservice.com
Sat Mar 10 09:41:11 GMT 2012


On Mar 9, 2012 10:41 PM, "lkcl luke" <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
>

> 4) it's worthwhile mentioning that part of the EOMA68 standard
> requires that there be an I2C EEPROM (in a fixed address TBD) which
> contains the device-tree information that properly describes the
> hardware.  but this information not only needs to be read at boot time
> but also needs to be read at runtime, dynamically!  it's a removable
> card, it's going to get.... removed :)
>
> so... *deep breath*.... where do we even begin to tackle this? :)
>

Hold on, hot plug at run time? If you unplug you will lose power, there is
no space for a battery on the card. Well not much and no designs have one.

J
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