APM vs ACPI

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Okay, I see now.  Thank you (I don't have much erudition on this subject 
<G>).

> 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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