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 <calvin.walton@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
