Re: ACPI thoughts

Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au
Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:00:32 +1100


Hi,

Torsten Landschoff <t.landschoff@gmx.net> writes:
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 11:11:04AM -0500, Philip Gladstone wrote:
>
> > I've got two long plane rides ahead of me -- I'll try and work up
> > a design for ACPI kernel/user interface and send it out next week.
>
> I am sure it does not belong here but I would like to use the feature of my
> motherboard to power up the system at a given time, for example to get new
> mails from my provider nightly (it much cheaper at night in germany).
>
> I do not know how to access it without using the bios setup and I did not f=
> ind
> any docs. Is there something in the acpi-specs?

This is covered by APM and I currently have a patch in my in queue to
allow it to be set up! Soon, soon ...

Cheers,
Stephen

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Stephen Rothwell                    Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au
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