Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/i386

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:48:24AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 08:19:52PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>  > Unfortunately apmbios.h is used by the world !
> 
> How much of it, and what would happen if we removed it entirely?
> (Also, what's the recommended usermode API for programs that want to
> do power stuff?)

The constants from it get used for ACPI power management and for power
management on some completely unrelated hardware.
Possibly they could be moved to a different header file.

        David

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