Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 18:14:17 +0900 (JST) From: Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> To: jhb@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386 files.ia64 src/sys/dev/a Message-ID: <20011027.181417.74729357.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011026115041.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200110261743.f9QHh5o33409@freefall.freebsd.org> <XFMail.011026115041.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi, > Woot! Thanks! > > /me hurrily cvsups so he can get the battery monitor in X :-) Please fix any problems when you find. > The only downside: I would hate for the APM interface to become our standard > power management interface in the future. :-P I would prefer that eventually Yes, me too :) # I'm basically lazy, so I wanted to make my efforts to minimum as # possible for almost the same result. For me, it was easy to just add APM compat to ACPI driver than designing totally new API set and investigating how many APM applications already there and converting them to use new API... Also, APM spec won't be updated anymore and APM BIOS support is disappearing in the market, so I didn't want to add new features too much to our APM driver. For users, maybe this is good thing because they don't have to re-compiling their favorite (and maybe customized) APM appications and can continue to use them with ACPI. > we use your libpower type stuff and convert ports to use that instead so it's > not so heavily tied to APM. Esp. since the libpower stuff might support other > power management interfaces on other archs, etc. Never mind, this is just a relief of existing old APM application on newer ACPI supported only laptops. We can still continue to design new power management interface without haste. # maybe move to arch@ if continued? Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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