Re: is there a technical reason for apm or pnp to NOT be klds?

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Nate Williams wrote:

> > : 7. discover that apm isnt a KLD either. :-(
> > : 
> > : 8. wonder why apm isnt a KLD...
> > : 
> > : 9. decide to ask list.
> > 
> > apm is hard to make a kld.  There's a number of things that we do
> > differently if apm is in the kernel, since apm is a known rogue when
> > it comes to timing things.  Since the clock attaches well before apm,
> > it is hard to go back and retro-fit things to behave properly.  With
> > enough work, you might be able to pull it off.
> 
> I believe John has a patch for APM that I promised to test a long time
> ago that fixes much of this.  Note, if APM didn't get loaded before
> someone used the APM utility, bad things would happen, but this is no
> worse than disabling APM.

of the many freebsd hacking Johns in the world, of which do you speak?

> 
> Nate
> 

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