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Date:      Fri, 21 May 1999 16:05:56 +0900 (JST)
From:      hosokawa@itc.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
To:        imp@harmony.village.org
Cc:        graham@a2a00266.ok.bconnected.net, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, hosokawa@itc.keio.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: APM interface 
Message-ID:  <199905210705.QAA12695@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 May 1999 10:28:46 JST". <199905210128.TAA09264@harmony.village.org>

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In article <199905210128.TAA09264@harmony.village.org>
imp@harmony.village.org writes:

>> There are vague plans to include support for more than one underlying
>> power management system.  How that works, and how a powerd would work
>> with that are a matter that is still open for discussion.  We do want
>> to move away from apm specific hack in the kernel and user utilities
>> as much as possible.

I agree.  Power mangement system of FreeBSD needs additional abstract
layers to hide underlying PM system like many device driver does for
network, storage, etc.

>> Specifically, we'd like to support ACPI in a sane manner, which
>> includes its power management facilities.

Does "support ACPI" means "using ACPI as the abstract layer", or
"using ACPI as underlying PM system?"

Perhaps this question is pointless because I'm not familiar with ACPI
spec, but as far as I remember, ACPI spec is reated not only with
power mangement hardware/BIOS, but also with OS support for these
features.

--
HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi
Assistant Manager
Information Technology Center, Keio University
<hosokawa@itc.keio.ac.jp>


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