Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:16:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: 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: <199908312216.PAA00882@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:20:15 MDT." <199908312120.PAA13660@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <199908312103.PAA16222@mt.sri.com> Nate Williams writes: > : > I think we need to set the interrupt mask to 0 in the PIC. > : > : I don't think makes any difference, since the APM Bios is in charge of > : what happens at this point, and the BIOS is below the level of the OS. > : > > The theory is that no more interrupts would come in. However, I think > there is another reason that you might be right.... "Standby" needs > to be able to wakeup on keyboard events, which needs interrupts > enabled... Actually, that's almost entirely system-dependant. The BIOS may well poll the keyboard controller/USB controller, for example. -- \\ 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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