On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 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.
actually, david woodhouse said it better than I did. You can get APM
capabilities, but we have no intent of putting APM/ACPI functions into
linuxbios. That kind of functionality belongs in the OS. The only reason
that power management is in the BIOS is to support DOS, and so that
vendors can hide information from you ... and it's never worked well at
all.
ron
