[patch] apm support

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Tue Feb 1 17:52:07 PST 2005


On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 23:29 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Just quickly wrote some code before bed:
> 
> http://hughsie.com/write/hal/hal-add-apm.patch
> 
> I know many people won't be using APM, but it's dead simple, and some
> legacy machines might be using it. I took some of the code from

More people than you might expect, for example at least Fedora kernels
will disable ACPI if the laptop's bios is older than 2001 or so, this
might be an upstream kernel thing too.  That includes a few machines
around the 500 - 600 MHz mark.

Dan

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