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APM(4) i386 Kernel Interfaces Manual APM(4) NAME apm -- APM BIOS interface SYNOPSIS device apm DEPRECATION NOTICE This driver is scheduled for removal prior to the release of FreeBSD 13.0. DESCRIPTION apm is an interface to the Intel / Microsoft APM (Advanced Power Man- agement) BIOS on laptop PCs. apm provides the following power management functions. 1. When the system wakes up from suspended mode, apm adjusts the system clock to RTC. 2. When the system wakes up from suspended mode, apm passes a message to syslogd(8) comprising of system wakeup time and elapsed time during suspended mode. 3. apm slows CPU clock when there are no system activities (runnable processes, interrupts, etc.). This function is available only on systems whose APM supports CPU idling. 4. apm exports an application interface as a character device. Applications can control APM, or retrieve APM status infor- mation via this interface. apm exports the following inter- faces. These symbols are defined in <machine/apm_bios.h>. APMIO_SUSPEND Suspend system. APMIO_GET Get power management information. APMIO_ENABLE APMIO_DISABLE Enable / Disable power management. APMIO_HALTCPU APMIO_NOTHALTCPU Control execution of HLT in the kernel context switch routine. APMIO_GETPWSTATUS Get per battery information. Some APM implementations execute the HLT (Halt CPU until an interrupt occurs) instruction in the "Idle CPU" call, while others do not. Thus enabling this may result in redundant HLT execu- tions because "Idle CPU" is called from the ker- nel context switch routine that inherently exe- cutes HLT. This may reduce peak system perfor- mance. Also the system hangs up if HLT instruction is disabled in the kernel context switch routine, and if the APM implementation of the machine does not execute HLT in "Idle CPU". On some im- plementations that do not support CPU clock slowdown, APM might not execute HLT. apm dis- ables APMIO_NOTHALTCPU operation on such ma- chines. The current version of apm does not call "Idle CPU" from the kernel context switch routine if clock slowdown is not supported, and it executes HLT instruction by default. Therefore, there is no need to use these two operations in most cases. These interfaces are used by apm(8). 5. apm polls APM events and handles the following events. Name Action Description PMEV_STANDBYREQ suspend system standby request PMEV_SUSPENDREQ suspend system suspend request PMEV_USERSUSPENDREQ suspend system user suspend request PMEV_CRITSUSPEND suspend system critical suspend request PMEV_NORMRESUME resume system normal resume PMEV_CRITRESUME resume system critical resume PMEV_STANDBYRESUME resume system standby resume PMEV_BATTERYLOW notify message battery low PMEV_UPDATETIME adjust clock update time SEE ALSO apm(8), zzz(8) AUTHORS Tatsumi Hosokawa <hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org> BUGS WARNING! Many, if not most, of the implementations of APM-bios in lap- tops today are buggy. You may be putting your LCD-display and batter- ies at a risk by using this interface. (The reason this is not a prob- lem for MS-Windows is that they use the real-mode interface.) If you see any weird behavior from your system with this code in use, unplug the power and batteries ASAP, if not immediately, and disable this code. We are very interested in getting this code working, so please send your observations of any anomalous behavior to us. When apm is active, calling the BIOS setup routine by using hot-keys, may cause serious trouble when resuming the system. BIOS setup pro- grams should be called during bootstrap, or from DOS. Some APM implementations cannot handle events such as pushing the power button or closing the cover. On such implementations, the system must be suspended only by using apm(8) or zzz(8). Disk spin-down, LCD backlight control, and power on demand have not been supported on the current version. FreeBSD 14.3 November 1, 1994 APM(4)
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