Re: [patch] pci probing

Simon Richter (geier@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:17:39 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Donald Becker wrote:

> > > What about ACPI and Wake-on-*?
> > Check out the patch at the end of the message to which you replied.

> I mean a way to set Wake-On-LAN/Wake-On-Ring/Wake-On-USB when shutting the
> device down.

The only clean way to do this is to query whether the device has a _PRW
object in its xSDT and then use _PSW to enable it. This will only work
once we have the tables parsed, however. We are working on that. :-)

> The transparent ACPI wake-up is important because many chips are being
> updated to PCI v2.1 ACPI without changing the PCI IDs or programming
> interface. An older device driver will work once the device is changed to
> D0 state, but the OS shouldn't just turn everything to full power at boot.

Shouldn't they bring SSDTs with them when they support ACPI? This is the
easiest way to recognize these devices, IMO.

Simon

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