Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 23:03:00 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apm vs apmconf Message-ID: <199806150603.XAA00805@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jun 1998 23:38:20 MDT." <199806150538.XAA05401@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <199806140535.WAA03391@antipodes.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : Hmm. Ultimately (but not now I think) we should abstract stuff away > : from APM towards more general "power policy" (as you described > : elsewhere). With ACPI now appearing in hardware, we'll be faced with > : more complex and abstract decisions. > > I kinda like this idea, but I'm not sure the kernel is the right place > for this. I'd love to see an ACPI driver and modifications to the APM > driver such that either one can attach to the "power manager device" > interface, much like many different sound cards can attach to the > "sound card device" currently (although maybe using a different > mechanism). I'd like to see how the new bus stuff pans out before > trying to design something like this. And I'd need a laptop that > groks ACPI before I can even think about working on this.... Sounds about right. Although you could get by with many newer non-laptop systems, as ACPI is part of the PC98 spec (branding program for Windows 98). > : BTW, have you tried the VM86 connect code I committed? > > I think so. The work I've done is with the latest APM stuff, and it > appears to have changed in the last week or so because I got merge > errors when I did a cvs update... They were minor and easy to fix, so > I think I'm using your stuff. Do you have 'options "VM86"' in your config? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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