Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 23:17:12 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Takanori Watanabe <takawata@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp> Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.org, ume@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules Makefile src/sys/modules/apm Mak Message-ID: <200110250517.f9P5HD739449@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Oct 2001 14:14:02 %2B0900." <200110250514.OAA42447@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp> References: <200110250514.OAA42447@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp>
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In message <200110250514.OAA42447@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp> Takanori Watanabe writes: : In message <200110250505.f9P55R739324@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh wrote: : >In message <20011025.133304.74756197.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Mitsuru IWASAKI w : >rites: : >: True. Also we should make apm loadable on only loader. Loading by : >: kldload makes situation very complicated, I think. : >: Also we need some sort of arbitration mechanism for APM and ACPI. : >: They are no able to co-exist together at the same time. : >: I'll make patches tonight or tomorrow. : > : >I've been able to have both acpi and apm in a kernel and have it boot : >and survive for a time. I'm not sure that I'd like to be able to do that. : : The spec says APM and ACPI should not co-exist together. : If ACPI is initialized prior than APM, APM detection will fail, : as it should be. : At least, some of interrupts the APM BIOS uses (System Management Interrupt) : is replaced into OS-visible interrupt ( called System Control Interrupt). : So event handling will not work properly. I didn't say it worked well. :-) I could get battery status, but that's about it. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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