Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:24:23 -0800 From: "Glenn Lee Dicus" <gdicus@nomadix.com> To: "Mobile FreeBSD" <mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: APM tutorial Message-ID: <199801070020.QAA11651@mail.nomadix.com>
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> > Does anybody know of a good source for writing APM aware applications in > > FreeBSD? > > Define 'APM aware'? APM aware applications register with the APM Driver using an operating system dependent mechanism. This is not exactly what I meant. Sorry! 8o > All unix applications are by definition > 'suspendable' due to job control on unix, so suspending them should pose > no problems to the applications unless they need to provide some sort of > real time input. If they do, then you need to somehow get notified that > the system is being suspended (which FreeBSD currently doesn't do) and > very quickly let your subscribers know that something is happening. I want to write a process that will dynamically evoke power management events. All power management features not supported by the APM Driver (there will be some because the platform I am working is a superset of APM 1.2) will have to be controlled by this process as well. If this means I must enhance the current APM Driver for BSD then that is what I will do. Any information source on how to program for the APM Driver and APM BIOS interface will be appreciated. thanks glenn
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