Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:43:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/apm apm.c Message-ID: <199907301843.LAA00424@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:40:27 MDT." <199907301840.MAA83037@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <199907301615.JAA55743@freefall.freebsd.org> Mike Smith writes: > : Erk, more APMIO_BIOS stuff I missed. Temporarily disable the resume timer > : support until I can implement it as an ioctl proper. > > Why are you removing the APMIO_BIOS stuff? It was put in there > specifically so that new functionality in the apm program without > needing to change kernels. It was also put in so that OEM specific > BIOS calls could be made, which the kernel cannot know about. It's removed just now simply because the old implementation couldn't work. I didn't actually think it was being used at all or I would have engineered something cleaner. I'm not entirely sure yet about the ramifications of user-space code being able to call the BIOS; there are security and locking implications that I want to consider, and a good case for a more generalised interface. APM should also become a module (real soon now), which will take the pressure off on any "vendor specific" features as well; so far we don't actually support anything "vendor specific" anyway, so it's a bit of a furphy right now. > I'm sorry that I haven't said anything before, but it just clicked > what you were removing. It's just WIP, and your point's well taken. -- \\ 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message
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