Re: kern/53741: /dev/apm is not MI

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Nov 25,  1:25pm, martin%NetBSD.org@localhost (martin%NetBSD.org@localhost) wrote:
-- Subject: kern/53741: /dev/apm is not MI

| >Number:         53741
| >Category:       kern
| >Synopsis:       /dev/apm is not MI
| >Confidential:   no
| >Severity:       serious
| >Priority:       medium
| >Responsible:    kern-bug-people
| >State:          open
| >Class:          sw-bug
| >Submitter-Id:   net
| >Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 25 13:25:00 +0000 2018
| >Originator:     Martin Husemann
| >Release:        NetBSD 8.99.26
| >Organization:
| The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
| >Environment:
| System: NetBSD painkiller.duskware.de 8.99.26 NetBSD 8.99.26 (GENERIC64) #15: Thu Nov 22 16:54:11 CET 2018 martin%seven-days-to-the-wolves.aprisoft.de@localhost:/work/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/GENERIC64 evbarm
| Architecture: aarch64
| Machine: evbarm
| >Description:
| 
| Our /dev/apm is not actually connected to the legacy APM functionality in
| old i386 BIOSes, but a (convenient) interface for the MI sysmon/envstat
| framework.
| 
| However, we only make it available machine/apmdev.h on some architectures.
| This sounds wrong (and breaks xfce4-extras compilation on aarch64).

I don;t see apmdev, I only see /usr/src/sys/dev/apm/apmio.h and that
seems mi?

christos