Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261530AbUFQS12 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:27:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261426AbUFQS12 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:27:28 -0400 Received: from 153.Red-213-4-13.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.4.13.153]:62468 "EHLO kerberos.felipe-alfaro.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261530AbUFQS1C (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:27:02 -0400 Subject: Re: ACPI vs. APM - Which is better for desktop and why? From: Felipe Alfaro Solana To: Justin Piszcz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:26:55 +0200 Message-Id: <1087496815.1690.2.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 1.5.9.1 (1.5.9.1-2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 887 Lines: 24 On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 13:10 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > I have enabled ACPI on my Dell GX1 (Pentium 3/500MHZ) machine and disabled > APM, however, what are the benefits of using ACPI over APM? Well, I can't tell for sure... ACPI is supposed to offer better power management and battery usage for laptops, while being more flexible than APM. The truth is that on my laptop, both work equally well but since ACPI is still less mature than APM, I chose to use ACPI in order to test it and helping in its future development. > > I am using Kernel 2.6.7 > > I see ACPI eats up an IRQ and does not share it: I wouldn't mind about IRQ's... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/