Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:26:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>, mmuir@es.co.nz, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: followup to apm problems. Message-ID: <199909011926.MAA00398@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:51:11 %2B0200." <35950.936193871@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> In message <199909011345.JAA05781@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman writes: > ><<On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:16:48 -0700, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> 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
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