APM vs ACPI

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
% Thank you!  So I should choose ACPI when I build a kernel since my board 
% supports it and disable APM.

Actually, if you compile in both, the kernel will use ACPI by default
and disable APM, otherwise it will use APM. You can have both at the
same time, but the kernel handles that for you. See Documentation/apm.txt
in the kernel source tree for some more information.

[good stuff elided]

Kurt
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