Stefan Sperling wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:08:01AM +0200, Edwin Mons wrote:
Will this feature ever be incorporated in mainstream FreeBSD? I'm eagerly
waiting for it to land in -CURRENT...
I have no idea.
I haven't got much feedback on this patch, apart from one
or two people who sent me a quick thank you note :)
So I have no idea how many people are actually using the patch.
I know that:
* if_sis and if_vr wake on lan support is very stable for me.
I've been using this code for nearly 2 years now.
* if_nve support has afaik never been tested (plus
it's a binary blob driver and will apparently be
replaced with OpenBSD's nfe driver soon.)
I run a single 6.2 box here that I maintain the patch for.
I'd be happy to setup a -current box to port the patch to -CURRENT.
I currently have one -CURRENT machine, and several 6.2-STABLE machines.
For at least two of them (the -CURRENT and an x86 -STABLE machine) I'd
really like to have WoL support, as these are my workstation and a home
server, both of them really do not need to be on all the time, but I
want to be able to reach them when I need a file from them when I'm
elsewhere.
I'd also be happy to add WOL support for more chipsets.
Adding support is relatively easy as long as another open source
OS (e.g. Linux) supports wake on lan for a chipset and even easier
if a good datasheet is available (as in case of if_sis).
I usually use either if_em or if_xl chipsets, so I hoped landing this
code in at least -CURRENT (should go there first, I guess) would result
in more chipsets supported ;)
If anyone has a card that does wake on lan after shutdown from Linux
but not after shutdown from FreeBSD with my patch applied let me know.
You may need to use the ethtool utility to enable WOL on Linux.
I don't run Linux on either machine. Perhaps I could do some tests on
my workstation with a CD-based linux distribution.
Edwin
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