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SubjectRe: ACPI thoughts
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 10:00:32AM +1100, Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au wrote:
> Torsten Landschoff <t.landschoff@gmx.net> writes:
> > I am sure it does not belong here but I would like to use the feature of my
> > motherboard to power up the system at a given time, for example to get new
> > mails from my provider nightly (it much cheaper at night in germany).
>
> This is covered by APM and I currently have a patch in my in queue to
> allow it to be set up! Soon, soon ...

Way, way cool! Thank you, I have been wanting this for ages.
I thought it was an ACPI-only thing.

Ideally, a patched cron would set the alarm to wake up the machine for
the next job that declares itself worthy. That would be nice.

-- Jamie

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