From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754035Ab1CYPl7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:41:59 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:60420 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753997Ab1CYPl6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:41:58 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=kepstin.ca; s=google; h=subject:from:to:cc:date:in-reply-to:references:content-type :x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:mime-version; b=Al3x+x4HybAHUP+Heks2DWcRvgg9w+R5Z7pEJrGw170gku9O8urC6qGV7CE6GxYjC1 U2ddOwvXJeJQA1nGZQy/ErhtQrYyGYT6LlKBX/bqRCL8laFnumdRkkS4ULZewjze2P3c cFZ6szRYDvkEejlsTaMfempQBuOdatP1jdvcE= Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support From: Calvin Walton To: Len Brown Cc: Ingo Molnar , Stephen Rothwell , x86@kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:41:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <20110324154505.934a56a0.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20110324083959.GE30812@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 2.91.90 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1301067716.2053.6.camel@ayu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 19:49 -0400, Len Brown wrote: > > > Microsoft was able to delete APM from Windows in 2006 > > > with the release of Windows Vista. [...] > > > > Does Windows XP still support it? > > yes, and so does Red Hat Linux 9. > > While i'm not a fan of APM at all, this removal is a tad fast IMHO. > > > > Beyond the lack of a upstream-visible feature-removal-schedule entry, we still > > have an Arcnet driver which hardware was obsoleted by Ethernet in the late 80s, > > and we still have i486 support and those are *much* older than APM. > > How would you like to write i486 specific code for the latest kernel > and test it on i486 hardware, honestly? Hmm, that reminds me: I should try a newer kernel on my 486 some time, it's still running 2.6.25. I'm actually quite honestly surprised that the modern libata drivers include code for and fully support my old vesa-bus IDE controller! (X has been less friendly, they dropped support for the graphics chipset during the Xfree86 4 development--but I mostly use this box headless.) -- Calvin Walton