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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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"Grover, Andrew" wrote:
> ACPI has by far the richest set of capabilities. It is a superset of APM.
> Therefore a combined APM/ACPI interface is going to look a lot like an ACPI
> interface.
> 
> IMHO an abstracted interface at this point is overengineering. Maybe later
> it will make sense, though.

IMHO We want to be able to support at least three cases:  APM, ACPI, and
native PM.

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Building 1024     |  combination -- but the combination is locked up
MandrakeSoft      |  in the safe."    -- Peter DeVries
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