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title="Add a kernel API for timed power-on"

contact="""
[tech-kern](mailto:tech-kern@NetBSD.org)
"""

category="kernel"
difficulty="medium"

description="""
Certain real time chips, and other related power hardware, have a facility
within them to allow the kernel to set a specific time and date at which time
the machine will power itself on.  One such chip is the DS1685 RTC.  A kernel
API should be developed to allow such devices to have a power-on-time set from
userland.  Additionally, the API should be made available through a userland
program, or added to an existing utility, such as halt(8).

It may also be useful to make this a more generic interface, to allow for
configuring other devices, such as Wake-On-Lan ethernet chips, to turn them
on/off, set them up, etc.
"""
]]