[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> What type of impact, if any, does the use of LinuxBIOS have on the
> power management scheme, since, to the best of my knowledge, these are
> usually hooked into the BIOS in some way. I'm referring to either APM
> or ACPI schemes.
APM is not going to be supported. There's been some talk of doing ACPI
by just copying the tables from the BIOS which comes with the board.
It's not clear that would be legal.
Neither would it be desirable - ACPI is a steaming pile of overengineered
shi^H^H^Hwossname, apparently designed to allow motherboard manufacturers
to run the equivalent of binary-only Java bytecode in privileged mode. If
you tell me you want it in an embedded system, I'm going to have to send
the boys in to take your crackpipe away.
Best bet is to write proper power management code for the devices in
question, IMO. You can probably reverse-engineer the ACPI bytecode without
too much difficulty - that may be illegal where you are but your employer
has offices in the Free World too. :)
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dwmw2
