Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 01:01:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM86 and APM Message-ID: <199809280101.SAA08172@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199809280029.SAA14347@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Sep 27, 98 06:29:26 pm
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> > I think the APM VM86() call will detect this because it uses > > BIOS-specific code that knows about the CMOS setting, but the > > non-VM86() code ignores the CMOS setting (which can cause other, > > interesting problems, like being able to suspend, but the laptop > > not waking up on an event that should result in a "resume"). > > Not. We used to use our own VM86 switcher to do the probe earlier, and > Mike converted to use the GENERIC VM86 switcher. If it worked before, > it *should* work now (modulo any bugs, which is essentially the > problem the poster is pointing out). Mea culpa. The only thing I can hazard a guess on this, then, is that with VM86, the apm stuff is called much earlier in locore.s than it is without it... Perhaps *too* early? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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