| Message ID | alpine.LFD.2.02.1103240336590.4529@x980 (mailing list archive) |
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> +Why: Microsoft deleted APM from Windows as of Vista in in 2006.
To be more precise, support for all hardware that do not support ACPI.
Also required for Vista and later is a 586 processor with TSC, such as Intel Pentium or later
Yuhong Bao
> I still have working thinkpad 560X, my brother occassionaly uses it... There is no doubt that there are still people running Linux on old APM laptops. The question, however, is if they're running (or will run) the latest upstream kernel. Further, are they available to test APM patches to the latest upstream kernel. > I do not think we should remove APM support like this. It does not > seem to be huge maintainance burden... Last week we decided not to delete APM yet. The jury is still out on APM's idle hooks. cheers, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index b3f35e5..2a03c46 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -619,3 +619,11 @@ Why: The original implementation of memsw feature enabled by Who: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> ---------------------------- + +What: CONFIG_APM +When: 2.6.40 +Why: Microsoft deleted APM from Windows as of Vista in in 2006. + It now seems more than safe that the latest Linux Kernel be APM-free. + The vintage laptops supporting APM are now difficult to find, + making it problatic to maintain this code. +Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>