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. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org