apmd and other archs

[Michael Schmitz]

> >Result: The vanilla gnome battery_applet now works for me (TM).
>
> A better way would be to have the via-pmu driver asynchronously (via
> a timer) poll for state change and update some static status datas.
> This way, on core99, we can just disable the polling timer and rely
> on automatic notifications done by the hw. The /proc interface would
> then just output the last status.

Just as fine. What routine is processing the automatic notification, and
what does the data format look like? I guess /dev/pmu will have to return
buffered data as well on core99?

	Michael


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