Re: Wakeup from a PCI device

[Charles Curley ETW <ccurley@dwarf.fc.hp.com>]

-> I am in favor of adding a wake-up pin.  It seems reasonable that a portable 
-> PC would be expected to wake-up with a modem ring even if the PCI bus was
-> powered down for power management reasons.
-> 
-> Thanks,
-> Frank P. Helms 8/14/96
-> frank.helms@amd.com 

I second the emotion.

I would think desktops and servers might use it also, so there is no
reason to restrict the wakeup pin to laptops.

Bruce Young's message suggested that only comm devices (modems, NICs)
would use this. I'm not sure one should limit one's thinking. For example,
an external data collection device might collect a sample only every 15
minutes. A data collection box running on batteries or solar power could
benefit also.

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