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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@lists.osdl.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [RFC] sleepy linux
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:22:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4772AA13.4030004@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071226190045.GB8094@elf.ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Yep... for the first version, I'll be very happy if it autosleeps when
> I'm traveling by bus or something. Working with ethernet plugged in is
> quite a distant goal.
> 
> (But I guess some cleverness could be done on the router or
> something. Automagically converting "interesting" packets into WoL
> enabled ones, or...?)
> 									Pavel

You've just eliminated 90%+ of the available Ethernet infrastructure.

However, there may be Ethernet controllers which can do something smart 
with incoming packets, and perhaps more importantly, we can always write 
a spec and try to push it to Intel, Broadcom, Realtek and Nvidia.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-26 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-25 23:07 [RFC] sleepy linux Pavel Machek
2007-12-26 17:28 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-12-26 19:02   ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-26 20:17   ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-26 20:23     ` Oliver Neukum
2007-12-26 20:32       ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-26 23:15         ` Oliver Neukum
2007-12-29 23:48           ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-27  9:41         ` Oliver Neukum
2007-12-29 23:51           ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-30 16:39             ` Oliver Neukum
2007-12-31 14:44               ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-02 10:52                 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-12-26 18:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-26 19:00   ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-26 19:22     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-12-26 20:08   ` Oliver Neukum
2007-12-26 20:43     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-26 20:51       ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-26 20:54         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-29 23:44           ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-26 20:09 ` [linux-pm] " Igor Stoppa
2007-12-30 11:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-05 21:51   ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-08 16:37     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-08 19:15       ` Pavel Machek

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