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Re: apmd and other archs



On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 08:53:43PM +0000, Hadess wrote:

> Linux-PPC (basically the Apple computers, any other Linux/PPC-subset
> using it ?) uses the PMU, and pmud for power management. I don't think
> that anybody wants to write an APM support for Power Macs (not me
> anyway).

Not APM support exactly... simply support for the same interface.  Just like
powermacs have totally different sound systems and still use /dev/dsp. 
/proc/apm and /dev/apm_bios are so simple that it should be easy to convince
any power management system to provide those API's.

Have fun,

Avery



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