On 29/09/2018, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 1:59 PM Sam Kuper <[email protected]> wrote: >> Small momentary switches cost pennies and laptops usually have about a >> hundred of them fitted, of various kinds. (Power on/off/suspend; >> volume up/down; keyboard keys; maybe others.) So, fitting laptops with >> momentary switches is definitely acceptable to manufacturers. > > I'm guessing you don't work in a company that designs or builds laptops :-)
True enough. I have worked at a company that designed and built other consumer electronics, though, and spent time with people speccing PCBs and custom silicon. > b/c they agonize over parts like this. I ran into one situation where the > ODM removed a single pulldown to save cost. One little > almost-too-small-to-see part which cost a fraction of a cent. But a laptop > BOM is a consequence of thousands of decisions of this type. > > Nope, the switch is definitely a non-starter, esp. given that there are > solutions that don't require it. > > It's not just the part. A single simple part like that has all kinds of > follow-on effects that are not obvious unless you've been at a company > which designs and builds consumer electronics. Thank you for the perspective. I do understand that changing one component can affect others. Purism isn't a typical laptop company. The addition of hardware switches, to control webcam, mic and Wi-Fi, is one of the USPs for their Librem models. These undoubtedly had knock-on effects for the BOM. Purism was undeterred by that. In that context... I'm just asking for one more switch. So, Youness and others at Purism: if you are reading this, please do spec a momentary switch to control flashing on future Librems. Your security-conscious users will thank you for it. -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
