Re: apmd and other archs

On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:15:32PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Re: mounting /etc readonly: how do you handle /etc/mtab in that case? :-) Symlink it to /proc/mounts, of course. :) /etc/mtab has always been evil, and not just because it's in the wrong directory. It's about equivalent to the "

Re: apmd and other archs

On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:40:15AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > /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 > > > >

Re: apmd and other archs

On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 09:47:13AM +0100, Michael Schmitz 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 c

Re: apmd and other archs

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 08:53:43PM +, Hadess wrote: > 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). Not APM support ex

Re: apmd and other archs

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.