Re: apm support, was: kern/41211: suspend causes kernel panic on resume

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Subject: Re: apm support, was: kern/41211: suspend causes kernel panic on resume
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:39:50 +0200

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:30:18AM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> What is the perspective, then, for apm-only i386 notebooks?

Keep netbsd-4. I have to agree with Andrew -- APM working is more or
less luck. The BIOS expects a random amount of devices to be still
enabled, others to be saved by the OS. There is no sane way to support
that.

That said, poweroff *should* work, so a full backtrace is useful.

Joerg

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