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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/apm apm.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:11:06 MST."
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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 22:57:23 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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In message <199703282011.NAA17933@rocky.mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes:
>>   Modified:    sys/i386/apm  apm.c
>>   Log:
>>   Try to talk to the APM BIOS with version 1.2 if possible.
>
>This is a *bad* thing, and should be backed out.  If you talk to it as a
>1.2 spec, it'll assume you support the 1.2 features which our driver
>doesn't.
>
>If you don't, I will (unless you're planning on adding 1.2 support
>soon.)

First of all Nate, what would that feature be ?  I know only of one
potential thing, and I doubt that even you have spottet it... :-)

Second, yes. I'm seriously rewamping APM right now.

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