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Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:55:12 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support
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On 04/07/2011 11:25 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>
>> Well, it kind of does but not really. :-)
>>
>> The main problem with APM is that nobody really works on it and I'm not sure
>> if there are any active users.  At least no one reports any problems with it,
>> which is kind of surprising, given the number of chages we've made in the PM
>> core for the last couple of years.  So quite likely it's just become
>> non-functional over time anyway, but we have no confirmation.
> 
> It was working ok last time I tried -- cca 6/2010.
> 								Pavel

What aspects of it did you test, and on what platform?

	-hpa

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