From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:17:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:15:44 -0500 Received: from smtp1.vol.cz ([195.250.128.73]:57101 "EHLO smtp1.vol.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:15:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 01:27:56 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: "Bradley D. LaRonde" Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, Thomas Capricelli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mounting a in-ROM filesystem efficiently Message-ID: <20011218012755.C37@toy.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <08d701c18412/mnt/tmp/sendmee91d2c0601010a@prefect> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <08d701c18412/mnt/tmp/sendmee91d2c0601010a@prefect>; from brad@ltc.com on Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:09:16PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > There are many arguments, but I don't think power consumption is > > one of them. Whatever they use for RAM on the palm machines allows > > the machines to run a week on 4 'aa' -size batteries. Maybe they > > grab kinetic energy from keystrokes using flea-generators ^;). > > No flea-generators that I know of. :-) > > SDRAM, even in self-refresh mode, does draw considerable current. But then > again so does decompressing stuff from ROM all the time. Well.. at least decompressing from rom does not eat power when not doing *something*. -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.