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[lkcl luke]

dominique, hi,

remember you need to send messages from the email address with which
you're subscribed.

a) there is nothing to stop EOMA card creators from adding a battery
or a supercapacitor [bari's put space for an optional supercapacitor
on the A10 PCB].

b) there is nothing to stop someone from using uswsusp2 such that the
device will wake up with an entirely new personality.  whilst this is
strictly speaking "boot time" it kinda isn't.  and also with the
possibility of a) it has to be tackled anyway.

l.


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From: Dominique Dumont <dod at debian.org>
To: Linux on small ARM machines <arm-netbook at lists.phcomp.co.uk>
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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:01:58 +0100
Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] [advice sought] EOMA68 kernel support
Le Friday 9 March 2012 23:41:16, lkcl luke a écrit :
> 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 :)

AFAIK, there's no battery in the card. So the A10 CPU will be powered off when
removed.

So the new HW will be detected at boot time.

Or did I miss something ?

All the best

Dominique
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