Re: APM BIOS support

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Andrei Emeltchenko (NRC/Helsinki) wrote:

> How could I use APM functions without BIOS ?
> Are there any possibilities ?

yes, there are possibilities, I think. The linux "ACPI" support in 2.4 has
the beginnings of code to do ACPI completely in the kernel. FreeBSD has
done this also. In fact, I am strongly convinced that the BEST way to do
APM-style functions is in the kernel, not in the BIOS.

ron