> Wake on LAN is in my view going to be tough to push > as an RFE because the intended use case is radically > different from the core customer base -- which are > customers running high availability / mission > critical servers 24x7x365. > > Most likely WOL capability will have to be done > entirely by an outside contributor for anything to > move forward in this area (which I find OK, because > OpenSolaris and Sun's interests mustn't necessarily > overlap). Perhaps it is just me, but I can't see the > priority being high for this.
Again, WOL is something that happens in hardware, and is really outside the scope of the OS (with the exception of configuration and enablement tools). When Solaris supports S3 on x86 machines (or S4 for the platforms that actully support PME in S4), there will be _nothing_ the OS can do if any driver choose to enable WOL. The RFE that has been discussed was a raw configuration interface to a driver specifically for the purpose of experimentation (oh, and for use by a "big" customer - but the theory here is we can help the customer migrate when we come up with a decent tool). I am interested in hearing from contributors on their ideas to an API and a tool. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
