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From: "Liam J. Foy" <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org>
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Subject: Re: APM Patch - review
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On Tue, 25 May 2004 15:43:55 -0700
"Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com> wrote:

> Valid values for remaining battery life are 0xFF, and 0-100.
> 
> -1, 255 and 0xFF are the SAME when looking at an 8 bit value. Since this
> 8 bit value was sign-extended to 32 bits to go into ai_batt_time, if it
> was 0xFF, it is now 0xFFFFFFFF, and you will never see 0x000000FF.
> 
> I will email you the APM spec privately (it's big). Please take a look
> at page 42 especially.
> 
> Regards -- Andy
Ah I see.

This would mean alot of the apm code in function print_all_info is not needed. Correct?

That manual is great Andy! Thanks:)!
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