On Sun 08 Dec 2002 at 23:08:54 +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 08:08:44PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 06:58:58PM +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> > > Is AMD Power Now! support being looked at by anybody? I can't seem to
> > > find any reference to it in current kernels. Strangely enough, there are
> > > also no references to it at all on AMD's website (www.amd.com) (or at
> > > least not that I found). The air emitted by my laptop's fan is far
> > > warmer with NetBSD than than with some unnamed glorified program loader
> > > from Redmond.
> > 
> > I noticed the same thing after installing zo.. er, xp on an Athlon box.
> > The CPU barely gets warm, but when I was running NetBSD on the same
> > machine, CPU temperature was 50...60 °C..
> 
> Do you have APM defined in the kernel ? If so, maybe you also have
> APM_NO_IDLE ?

In my case I don't.

> The BIOS has to support APM too.

It seems to do it only partially. But at leased sufficient for that
glorified program loader, apparently. For instance the battery level is
always "empty" with NetBSD. But ACPI is incomplete in other areas (such
as powerdown, and I found nothing comparable to the APM idle call).

> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
-Olaf.
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