APM vs ACPI
kwall@kurtwerks.com
kwall
Mon May 17 11:41:52 PDT 2004
Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
% 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.
Err, I meant "You can have both compiled in at the same time, but you
can't *use* both at the same time...
Kurt
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