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19 .Nd APM BIOS interface
24 is an interface to the Intel / Microsoft APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS
28 provides the following power management functions.
29 .Bl -enum -offset indent
31 When the system wakes up from suspended mode,
33 adjusts the system clock to RTC.
35 When the system wakes up from suspended mode,
39 comprising of system wakeup time and elapsed time during suspended mode.
42 slows CPU clock when there are no system activities (runnable processes,
44 This function is available only on systems whose APM
48 exports an application interface as a character device.
50 can control APM, or retrieve APM status information via this interface.
52 exports the following interfaces.
53 These symbols are defined in
54 .In machine/apm_bios.h .
55 .Bl -tag -width 4n -offset indent
59 Get power management information.
62 Enable / Disable power management.
64 .It Sy APMIO_NOTHALTCPU
65 Control execution of HLT in the kernel context switch routine.
66 .It Sy APMIO_GETPWSTATUS
67 Get per battery information.
69 Some APM implementations execute the HLT
70 (Halt CPU until an interrupt occurs)
73 call, while others do not.
74 Thus enabling this may result in
75 redundant HLT executions because
77 is called from the kernel context switch routine that inherently executes
79 This may reduce peak system performance.
81 Also the system hangs up if HLT instruction is disabled in the kernel
82 context switch routine, and if the APM implementation of the machine
83 does not execute HLT in
85 On some implementations that do not support CPU clock slowdown, APM
86 might not execute HLT.
90 operation on such machines.
92 The current version of
96 from the kernel context switch routine if clock slowdown is not supported,
97 and it executes HLT instruction by default.
99 no need to use these two operations in most cases.
102 These interfaces are used by
106 polls APM events and handles the following events.
107 .Bl -column PMEV_POWERSTATECHANGEXXX "suspend system xxxxx"
108 .It Sy "Name " "Action " "Description"
109 .It Dv "PMEV_STANDBYREQ " No "suspend system " "standby request"
110 .It Dv "PMEV_SUSPENDREQ " No "suspend system " "suspend request"
111 .It Dv "PMEV_USERSUSPENDREQ " No "suspend system " "user suspend request"
112 .It Dv "PMEV_CRITSUSPEND " No "suspend system " "critical suspend request"
113 .It Dv "PMEV_NORMRESUME " No "resume system " "normal resume"
114 .It Dv "PMEV_CRITRESUME " No "resume system " "critical resume"
115 .It Dv "PMEV_STANDBYRESUME " No "resume system " "standby resume"
116 .It Dv "PMEV_BATTERYLOW " No "notify message " "battery low"
117 .It Dv "PMEV_UPDATETIME " No "adjust clock " "update time"
124 Tatsumi Hosokawa <hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org>
127 Many, if not most, of the implementations of APM-bios in laptops
129 You may be putting your LCD-display and batteries at
130 a risk by using this interface.
131 (The reason this is not a problem for
132 MS-Windows is that they use the real-mode interface.)
134 weird behavior from your system with this code in use, unplug the
135 power and batteries ASAP, if not immediately, and disable this code.
137 We are very interested in getting this code working, so please send your
138 observations of any anomalous behavior to us.
142 is active, calling the BIOS setup routine by using hot-keys,
143 may cause serious trouble when resuming the system.
144 BIOS setup programs should be called during bootstrap, or from DOS.
146 Some APM implementations cannot handle events such as pushing the
147 power button or closing the cover.
148 On such implementations, the system
157 Disk spin-down, LCD backlight control, and power on demand have not
158 been supported on the current version.