From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 1 12:36:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4477D15517 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:36:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00398; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:26:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909011926.MAA00398@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Garrett Wollman , Mike Smith , Warner Losh , 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 "Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:51:11 +0200." <35950.936193871@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:26:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <199909011345.JAA05781@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman writes: > >< said: > > > >> Actually, that's almost entirely system-dependant. The BIOS may well > >> poll the keyboard controller/USB controller, for example. > > > >And designs based on the Intel PIIX4 will generate SMI# interrupts for > >whichever activities are programmed in the BIOS, completely bypassing > >the traditional interrupt mechanism. > > And these interrupts will take as much as 50usec to service... Since in the context that we're discussing the system is asleep, I can't actually see how this is in any way relevant... -- \\ 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