Avery Pennarun wrote: > > > 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. > > > > The info logged to /proc/apm is currently logged to /etc/power/apm. I have > > Is this a typo? Why is status information in /etc?
Because it's from pmud, which can't create /proc entries. > > independent. I just don't see a good reason to change from pmud to apmd, > > if that's what you're suggesting. > > It's always better, IMHO, to keep Linux userspace as similar as possible > between different architectures. If pmud has features that apmd doesn't > have, or vice versa, I would rather merge them than keep them separate. In > the process, we might as well work on making the kernel interfaces similar > too. That's the whole _point_ of the kernel. I agree there. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and the DRI project
