[OT] Power Management (Re: FTBFS for illegal archs)

2005-04-18 Thread Simon Richter
Hi,
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Not quite unlikely. In fact ACPI support for the Pegasos is on my todo
list. :-)
Umm, why?
Because it is the only way you can shut down PM capable PCI cards.
   Simon


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Re: [OT] Power Management (Re: FTBFS for illegal archs)

2005-04-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:05:35AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
 
 Not quite unlikely. In fact ACPI support for the Pegasos is on my todo
 list. :-)
 
 Umm, why?
 
 Because it is the only way you can shut down PM capable PCI cards.

No, that's completely wrong.  Individual PCI devices don't care about
what higher level mechanisms are used for powermanagment, and there's
lots of non ACPI-based PM implementations in the Linux kernel.


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