On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, huang ying wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 04/17/2012 01:07 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > >> BTW, can you please explain to me what the #WAKE signal is and how it is > >> different from PME#? > > > > #WAKE signal is triggered by a pin connected to the root complex or other > > motherboard logic. PME# is triggered by PME message sent to the port. > > PME# is a PCI pin, while WAKE# is a PCI Express pin. In PCI Express, > there is no PME#, PME is delivered between end point device and root > port or root complex event collector via PME message, and the PME > message will trigger IRQ on root port or root complex event collector. > WAKE# is not used for PCI Express D1, D2 and D3hot, it is just used > by D3cold. When remote wakeup detected by end point device, it will > assert WAKE# to notify power controller (implemented via ACPI on some > platform), then power controller will turn on power for main link, > after link goes back to L0, PME message will be sent to root port or > root complex event collector by end point device. OK So do I understand correctly that the WAKE# signal here is the one described in Section 5.3.3.2 Link Wakeup of PCI Express Base spec. 2.0? So what happens is that it triggers a GPE and that GPE has a _Lxx method associated with it, I suppose. Is that correct? Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
