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SubjectRe: [RFC] sleepy linux
Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> Yep... for the first version, I'll be very happy if it autosleeps when
> I'm traveling by bus or something. Working with ethernet plugged in is
> quite a distant goal.
>
> (But I guess some cleverness could be done on the router or
> something. Automagically converting "interesting" packets into WoL
> enabled ones, or...?)
> Pavel

You've just eliminated 90%+ of the available Ethernet infrastructure.

However, there may be Ethernet controllers which can do something smart
with incoming packets, and perhaps more importantly, we can always write
a spec and try to push it to Intel, Broadcom, Realtek and Nvidia.

-hpa


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