Re: Documentation was: Power on at specified time.

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham-oKK1aGe2n869koe0gwxAeg@public.gmane.org>]

> Speaking of that, there currently isn't a Documentation/acpi directory,
> although I know a number of people have written some good write-ups of
> various things - maybe that's where they should go.

Well, I found a nvram-wakeup project on Sourceforge. I managed to
download it from elsewhere (since Sorceforge is currently down), and it
looks from that like every manufacturer has a different method of
implementing this. I looked through the ACPI specs I have downloaded,
but didn't see anything that indicated a standardised way of telling the
computer to wake up at a specific time. Patrick's code uses the RTC
alarm but from that nvram-wakeup project, this is by no means the only
method. What is more, the project says that sometime the wakeup time
doesn't 'take' until after a reboot!

Regards,

Nigel



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