[LinuxBIOS] power on via usb

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri Dec 22 01:09:04 CET 2006


* Shaddam Corrino IV <shaddamcorrinoiv at gmail.com> [061221 16:21]:
> I immagine that even if the original bios does not support it, it merely means
> that the 1st hard power-on won't work. 

USB power on must be supported by the mainboard and chipset as well.
Only if the hardware is designed to do it, the bios has a chance. 

> However, I think that 2nd and subsequent
> soft power off/on cycles would work if the system would be put in stand-by mode
> in the right way.

What do you mean by that?

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