Re: Wakeup from a PCI device

[jmedeiro@slonet.org (Jim Medeiros)]

Bruce:

I'll chime in here on this thread.  What relationship or involvement
will the wake-up pin have with the hot-swap (live insertion)  PCI
efforts underway in the SIG?  It seems that the wake-up pin could
serve the purpose of notifying an OS that a new board has been
inserted into the system for hot swap boards.

Regards,
Jim Medeiros
Ziatech Corporation

On Wed, 14 Aug 1996 15:45:52 -0600, you wrote:
>-> 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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