Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > > 2. The laptop blanks its display, and tells the hard drive to spin down
> > > > 3. apmd gets woken and writes a message to syslog, which writes it to the
> > > > hard drive.
> > >
> > > And in some systems, apmd calls a script after that step.
> > [...]
> >
> > In a lot of ways apmd discussions are moot since the world is moving to
> > ACPI and acpid...
>
> It is very hard to retrofit ACPI to an existing machine
Granted :) I'm just saying that the world isn't building new machines
with APM in mind[1], and future kernel power management will probably be
along the lines of ACPI, with APM support playing catchup where
possible.
FWIW I have toyed with creating a native power management driver for the
i430FX, since APM is buggy[2] and doesn't fully support the chipset PM,
and ACPI is impossible.
Jeff
[1] only basic APM compatibility in mind.
[2] at least until FreeBIOS matures or the mobo maker released a new
BIOS (latest on Web site: 1997)
-- Jeff Garzik | Nothing cures insomnia like the Building 1024 | realization that it's time to get up. MandrakeSoft, Inc. | -- random fortune- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Apr 30 2000 - 21:00:18 EST