> Unless you want to make it generic enough to apply to all > non-x86 systems, it's also not very worthwhile to put a ton > of effort into this. If you want that, it's probably better > to take the official APM driver and split it into a front > end (just the device node stuff) and a back end (hardware > interface) so that anyone can write a new back end.
Well, the ARM folks did a good job at doing a more generic APM emulation, I'd rather go from their implementation if I had to do anything. > Any non-PMU Mac has only minimal power management. The cuda > based models have some stuff around scheduled powerup and > server mode and can reboot the box using a cuda command. Yes, but nothing that fits in the APM API anyway. > Older models can do poweroff and (in most cases) a clean > reset but not much else. > > I'm not sure what your goal is. Do you just want X to shutup > about not being able to open an APM device? > > Brad Boyer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
