On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 12:36 AM Kurt Jaeger <p...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi! > > > APM BIOS support will likely be removed from FreeBSD for FreeBSD 13. This > > was once quite important for LAPTOP users. However, it is now no longer > > relevant. It stopped being supported around the time that ACPI started to > > be released for laptops. This was around the Pentium 200MHz laptop > > generation, give or take. ACPI was released in 1996 to replace APM, and > had > > largely done so by 2000. As such, this is 20-year obsolete technology. > > I think I still use it to this day for all my laptops to check > the battery status and put the laptop to sleep. > The commands I use are apm and zzz, and they still work. > Those commands don't invoke the APM BIOS. instead, they call into ACPI under the covers. Only really really old laptops from the 1990s still have that interface... > What would be replacement commands ? > I'd planned on keeping these commands alive. This is just the Advanced Power Management BIOS I plan on killing. These commands just call the old APM ioctls, which ACPI implements. I had no plans on killing those.... Just the APM BIOS support in the kernel because it does weird things that I'd like to retire. > > To that end, I'm looking for actual users of this APM that have used the > > technology successfully in FreeBSD 12.0 or newer. > > I can experiment and even can provide you remote access to laptops of that > kind. > You have Pentium 200 or slower machines with APM BIOS still in service? :) I can test the apm/zzz commands on my laptops... I often type those w/o thinking due to old muscle memory. Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
