> My contribution to kernel bloat ... untested except on Lombard, the 3400
Followup: I forgot the following little patch to pmu.h. Paul, BenH, can we
please get this into the kernel source?
Michael
--- include/asm/pmu.h.org Fri Nov 24 14:25:38 2000
+++ include/asm/pmu.h Fri Nov 2
Hi,
I'm having problems running a squid-cache on a G4 using the version of
squid in potato: 2.2.5-3.
I'm using kernel 2.2.18-pre18 from linux-pmac-stable. squid runs fine
with one cache, but as soon as I try to get two caches communicating,
the child cache falls over without anything of note in l
> Maybe that's a good opportunity to suggest to add the fnkeys tool, as well.
> Unfortunately, that app doesn't exist yet :o(.
> A while ago, I was asking for a way to switch the setting of the F[1-12]
> keys combined with the Fn-key on the powerbook in Linux
> (default F-keys <-> default backlig
>: >
>: If someone more insightful has some time to spend on this, this should be a
>: very useful addition to powerpc-utils (essentialy a powerbook-util, of
>course,
>: but there probably isn't such a package).
plus 'vmode' and 'sndvolmix', quite useful on my oldworld PB.
These apps are in
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > to poke around on the FTP site. If someone knows of a PPC or PowerMac
> > > specific utils package, I'd appreciate a hint.
> >
> > powerpc-utils sounds like a good candidate, right now all it has is
> > clock, mousemode and nvsetenv.
>
> Argh -
> >Result: The vanilla gnome battery_applet now works for me (TM).
>
> A better way would be to have the via-pmu driver asynchronously (via
> a timer) poll for state change and update some static status datas.
> This way, on core99, we can just disable the polling timer and rely
> on automatic no
>My contribution to kernel bloat ... untested except on Lombard, the 3400
>code needs testing and perhaps some work. Overall the code looks pretty
>ugly, take it as a proof of concept only and improve as desired. Patch is
>against 2.2.18-stable, the proc_register probably needs changing for 2.4.
>
> It seems this apm-pmud glue library would solve our problem in user space
> entirely (except for apps that directly cat /proc/apm). The battery status
> commands to the PMU are sent via /dev/adb and I'm not sure how this can
> be safely done from kernel code.
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