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

[lkcl luke]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Justin Cormack
<justin at specialbusservice.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 9, 2012 10:41 PM, "lkcl luke" <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.

 bari's put space for an optional supercapacitor on the PCB.  you
don't need much to sustain an ARM CPU that's running in power-saving
mode.

 l.