From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 10 6:38: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from tasogare.imasy.or.jp (tasogare.imasy.or.jp [202.227.24.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3615537B400; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 06:37:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (iwasaki.imasy.or.jp [202.227.24.92]) by tasogare.imasy.or.jp (8.11.1+3.4W/3.7W-tasogare/smtpfeed 1.07) with ESMTP id f0AEbfk07136; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:37:42 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org) To: culverk@wam.umd.edu Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, imp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pmtimer In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 19.34 / Mule 2.3 (SUETSUMUHANA) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010110233740Z.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:37:40 +0900 From: Mitsuru IWASAKI X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 19 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > I'm not sure what pmtimer is supposed to do. Isn't it supposed to give > support for the broken statclock on laptops? I saw my friend running 4.1 > with some patches that allowed him to use the statclock (and the rtc > device showed up in systat -vm 2) On my laptop, pmtimer doesn't appear to > do anything; and I couldn't find a manpage on it Please refer to src/UPDATING for -current. The new pmtimer device is necessary for laptops. Failure to include the device will cause suspended laptops losing time when they resume. Currently pmtimer won't solve the broken statclock problem... The timer related code at suspend/resume time have been moved from APM to pmtimer so that ACPI (includes new power management system) use pmtimer at sleep/wakeup time as well. Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message