From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Apr 30 21:28: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from jupiter.linuxengine.net (jupiter.linuxengine.net [209.61.188.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42F037B41C for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:28:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jupiterweb.commercevault.com (jupiterweb.commercevault.com [209.61.179.16] (may be forged)) by jupiter.linuxengine.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g414RqY31229; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:27:52 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:27:52 -0500 (CDT) From: John Utz X-X-Sender: john@jupiter.linuxengine.net To: Nate Williams Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , Subject: Re: is there a technical reason for apm or pnp to NOT be klds? In-Reply-To: <15567.27168.230527.88559@caddis.yogotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Nate Williams wrote: > > : 7. discover that apm isnt a KLD either. :-( > > : > > : 8. wonder why apm isnt a KLD... > > : > > : 9. decide to ask list. > > > > apm is hard to make a kld. There's a number of things that we do > > differently if apm is in the kernel, since apm is a known rogue when > > it comes to timing things. Since the clock attaches well before apm, > > it is hard to go back and retro-fit things to behave properly. With > > enough work, you might be able to pull it off. > > I believe John has a patch for APM that I promised to test a long time > ago that fixes much of this. Note, if APM didn't get loaded before > someone used the APM utility, bad things would happen, but this is no > worse than disabling APM. of the many freebsd hacking Johns in the world, of which do you speak? > > Nate > -- John L. Utz III john@utzweb.net Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message