From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri May 21 0:48: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp (afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp [131.113.212.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E849215938 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 00:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp) Received: (from hosokawa@localhost) by afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp (8.8.8+2.7Wbeta7/3.6Wbeta6-ntc_mailserver1.03) id QAA13112; Fri, 21 May 1999 16:47:56 +0900 (JST) Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:47:56 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199905210747.QAA13112@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp> To: imp@harmony.village.org Cc: graham@a2a00266.ok.bconnected.net, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, hosokawa@itc.keio.ac.jp Subject: Re: APM interface In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 May 1999 16:13:17 JST". <199905210713.BAA10563@harmony.village.org> From: hosokawa@itc.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) X-Mailer: mnews [version 1.21] 1997-12/23(Tue) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <199905210713.BAA10563@harmony.village.org> imp@harmony.village.org writes: >> The question is not pointless. You recollection of the ACPI spec is >> correct. I'm not sure what the best way to produce a working >> framework would be, but it is in many ways "like" USB or SCSI. There >> are many different kinds of things that can pass through the ACPI >> layer, and some rational thought needs to be given to that layer so >> that the full potential of ACPI can be realized. Thank you. I understand. I have a hardcopy of ACPI spec and it would be tenS times as heavy as APM spec. ACPI is very large and complex system. When I wrote APM driver of FreeBSD, I wrote "get version" request function at first, but I felt that I have no idea how I start playing with this monster when I looked at ACPI spec first. BTW, I read ACPI4Linux page (http://phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de/acpi/index.html.en) and I found that they're not at far away. -- HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi Assistant Manager Information Technology Center, Keio University To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message