From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jun 15 00:08:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA22411 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 00:08:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles92.castles.com [208.214.165.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA22387 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 00:08:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA00805; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 23:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806150603.XAA00805@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Warner Losh cc: Mike Smith , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apm vs apmconf In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jun 1998 23:38:20 MDT." <199806150538.XAA05401@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 23:03:00 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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