APM support in linuxbios.

[sivakumar]

Hi,

When I was reading a document about the APM, it is mentioned that we
need to have BIOS support to have APM on the machine. Also it is
mentioned that if the BIOS is not properly supported it will lead the
APM to crash the system.

So I want to know about APM support in the case of LINUXBIOS.
Can any one help me out?

Also yesterday I have downloaded the latest code of the Linuxbios. Still
now I was working with old source base from sourceforge.net. After
compiling with the new code, I found some new file like c_start.s and
linuxbios_c.*.

what I have to do with these file?

Thanks,
Siva

[Andrew Ip]

Sivakumar,
> When I was reading a document about the APM, it is mentioned that we
> need to have BIOS support to have APM on the machine. Also it is
> mentioned that if the BIOS is not properly supported it will lead the
> APM to crash the system.
> So I want to know about APM support in the case of LINUXBIOS.
> Can any one help me out?

It is not supported.
> Also yesterday I have downloaded the latest code of the Linuxbios. Still
> now I was working with old source base from sourceforge.net. After
> compiling with the new code, I found some new file like c_start.s and
> linuxbios_c.*.
> what I have to do with these file?

I think your code is pretty old.  These files are required.  You also 
probably need to regenerate your build directory to reflect the new
change.

-Andrew

APM / ACPI support in linuxbios.

[siva]

What about the ACPI tables. Whether the Linuxbios support ACPI?

Thanks,
Siva

Andrew Ip wrote:
> Sivakumar,
> > When I was reading a document about the APM, it is mentioned that we
> > need to have BIOS support to have APM on the machine. Also it is
> > mentioned that if the BIOS is not properly supported it will lead the
> > APM to crash the system.
> > So I want to know about APM support in the case of LINUXBIOS.
> > Can any one help me out?
>
> It is not supported.
> > Also yesterday I have downloaded the latest code of the Linuxbios. Still
> > now I was working with old source base from sourceforge.net. After
> > compiling with the new code, I found some new file like c_start.s and
> > linuxbios_c.*.
> > what I have to do with these file?
>
> I think your code is pretty old.  These files are required.  You also 
> probably need to regenerate your build directory to reflect the new
> change.
>
> -Andrew

APM / ACPI support in linuxbios.

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, siva wrote:
> What about the ACPI tables. Whether the Linuxbios support ACPI?

no, and that's a good thing. The kernel can do the hard part of ACPI, so 
we just need ACPI tables but not ACPI support.

ron