Avery Pennarun wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:58:04PM +0100, Hadess wrote: > > > I'm writing you to have apmd marked as x86 only. Right now apmd is > > compiled by the build-daemon (I think) but is 100% useless on PPCs, just > > to name one arch. Maybe some other architectures (I'm thinking of Alphas) > > use the APM system. > > It was originally binary-i386 and someone asked me to change it. I don't > remember which arch it was. > > What does Linux-PPC do for power management? I thought Linus was > recommending that you implement the /proc/apm and /dev/apm_bios interfaces > at one point, and that sounds reasonable to me. Then everyone using Linux > can use the same apmd.
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). Cheers -- /Hadess http://hadess.net
