From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 31 15:26:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles531.castles.com [208.214.165.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA8614FCC for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:25:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00882; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:16:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908312216.PAA00882@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), Mitsuru IWASAKI , mmuir@es.co.nz, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: followup to apm problems. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:20:15 MDT." <199908312120.PAA13660@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:16:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <199908312103.PAA16222@mt.sri.com> Nate Williams writes: > : > I think we need to set the interrupt mask to 0 in the PIC. > : > : I don't think makes any difference, since the APM Bios is in charge of > : what happens at this point, and the BIOS is below the level of the OS. > : > > The theory is that no more interrupts would come in. However, I think > there is another reason that you might be right.... "Standby" needs > to be able to wakeup on keyboard events, which needs interrupts > enabled... Actually, that's almost entirely system-dependant. The BIOS may well poll the keyboard controller/USB controller, for example. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message