[arch-dev-public] delete apmd from extra?

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 19:38:34 EDT 2008


On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:35 PM, James Rayner <iphitus at iphitus.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Thayer Williams <thayer at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>> On Oct 16, 2008 at 01:41 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Does anyone even use apm anymore? And if they do, shouldn't we discourage it?
>>>
>>> I'm sure someone in the wild is using it, but yes we should discourage it
>>> =)
>>
>> well if APM is all their hardware supports...
>
> I don't think any hardware made after 2000 supports only APM...

How many i686 machines would be only APM? I feel like ACPI was
pre-Pentium-Pro, but maybe I'm mistaken.

Either way, moving this to community or unsupported isn't that big of
a loss here. Its not like we have been testing it.

-Dan



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