Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/sandpoint/sandpoint

[David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 09:07:47PM +0100, Frank Wille wrote:
 > >> > > A detach function for the onboard flash probably makes no sense,
 > >> > > so remove it.
 > >> > 
 > >> > Sure it makes sense.
 > >> 
 > >> Hmm... how do you detach it? With drvctl(8)? Why should you do that?
 > >
 > > Power consumption comes to mind...
 > 
 > I doubt that detaching the driver will change power consumption a lot.
 > And I cannot remove the NOR flash chip from the mainboard. ;)

It does if you have to detach the driver to power the thing off.

Then again, I'm making this up as I go along as I have no idea what
power management for flash actually looks like.

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David A. Holland
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