New APM BIOS patches

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From: Stephen.Rothwell
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 02:30

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	This is to announce the 0.5 release of the
Advanced Power Managament (APM) driver for Linux 1.2.0

This software is still ALPHA as it will probably still cause
several styles of laptops to crash.  Feedback required, both
positive and bugs.

New features since 0.4:
	Works with Linux 1.2.0
	Paranoid coding of calls to the BIOS
	Error messages updated
	Multiple device opens
	register/unregister functions exported so that
		modules can be notified of APM events
	apmd now does a sync before allowing the machine
		to be suspended
	there is some preliminary code to blank the display

There a lots of configuration defines at the start of apm_bios.c
so if the default setup (mine) doesn't work for you, try changing
some of these.

The driver is available from <http://www.auug.org.au/~sfr> and
hopefully soon from
<ftp://ftp.aaug.org.au/pub/unix/linux/apm_bios.0.5.tar.gz>.

Cheers,
Stephen
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Stephen Rothwell                    Stephen.Rothwell@pd.necisa.oz.au
NEC Information Systems Australia   Phone: +61-6-2508747
Software Development Centre         Fax:   +61-6-2508746
Canberra, Australia

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From: Stephen.Rothwell@pd.necisa.oz.au
Subject: New APM BIOS patches
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Organization: NEC Information Systems Australia, Canberra
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 02:30:32 GMT
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Keywords: Power Management kernel patch
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