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

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

The following reply was made to PR kern/53741; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/53741: /dev/apm is not MI
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 15:13:28 -0500

 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