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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man4/man4.i386/apm.4 | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man4/man4.i386/apm.4 b/static/openbsd/man4/man4.i386/apm.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..84775dec --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man4/man4.i386/apm.4 @@ -0,0 +1,221 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: apm.4,v 1.36 2023/01/30 14:43:29 jcs Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Marco S. Hyman +.\" +.\" Permission to copy all or part of this material for any purpose is +.\" granted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph +.\" are duplicated in all copies. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' +.\" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT +.\" LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS +.\" FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 30 2023 $ +.Dt APM 4 i386 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm apm +.Nd advanced power management device interface +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "apm0 at bios0 flags 0x0000" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides an interface to the Advanced Power Management +.Pq APM +BIOS functions. +The driver supports versions 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 interface specifications. +.Pp +This driver also provides an interface to +.Xr acpi 4 +on some machines. +.Pp +The low two bytes of the flags specify the version of the specification +driver should conform to in binary decimal notation. +The value of 0x0101 would specify version 1.1 of the interface +specification to be used. +.Pp +The value of 0x10000 specifies whether to leave interrupts enabled +when calling APM BIOS routines. +This is needed for some +.Tn IBM +laptops, the symptoms are +hangs and freezes on suspend, stand by, and hibernation activities. +.Pp +The value of 0x20000 specifies to swap the bytes of the battery +life estimation (the DX register) as given from the APM BIOS. +This is needed for some +.Tn SONY VAIO +laptops, such as some 505 models. +.Pp +Configuration options: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width DIAGNOSTIC -compact -offset indent +.It Dv APMDEBUG +Enable various driver status messages. +.It Dv DIAGNOSTIC +Enable debugging messages. +.It Dv DEBUG +Enable other debugging messages. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver implements the following +.Xr ioctl 2 +calls. +They are defined in +.In machine/apmvar.h . +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Dv APM_IOC_REJECT +.Em Not implemented . DO NOT USE . +.It Dv APM_IOC_STANDBY +.Pq Li "no parameters" +Request +.Dq standby +mode. +.It Dv APM_IOC_SUSPEND +.Pq Li "no parameters" +Request +.Dq suspend +mode. +.It Dv APM_IOC_HIBERNATE +.Pq Li "no parameters" +Request +.Dq hibernate +mode. +.It Dv APM_IOC_GETPOWER +.Pq Li "struct apm_power_info" +Request the current power state. +The argument structure is as follows: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +struct apm_power_info { + u_char battery_state; + u_char ac_state; + u_char battery_life; + u_char spare1; + u_int minutes_left; + u_int spare2[6]; +}; +.Ed +.Pp +The following values are defined for +.Va battery_state : +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Dv APM_BATT_HIGH +Battery has a high state of charge. +.It Dv APM_BATT_LOW +Battery has a low state of charge. +.It Dv APM_BATT_CRITICAL +Battery has a critical state of charge. +.It Dv APM_BATT_CHARGING +Battery is not high, low, or critical and is currently charging. +.It Dv APM_BATT_UNKNOWN +Cannot read the current battery state. +.It Dv APM_BATTERY_ABSENT +No battery installed. +.El +.Pp +The following values are defined for +.Va ac_state : +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Dv APM_AC_OFF +External power not detected. +.It Dv APM_AC_ON +External power detected. +.It Dv APM_AC_BACKUP +Backup power in use. +.It Dv APM_AC_UNKNOWN +External power state unknown. +.El +.Pp +The +.Va battery_life +value contains the estimated percentage of battery life available. +100% indicates a full charge. +.Pp +The +.Va minutes_left +value contains the estimated number of minutes of battery life +remaining. +.It Dv APM_IOC_DEV_CTL +.Pq Li "struct apm_ctl" +Allows an application to directly set the +APM operating mode. +The argument structure is as follows: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +struct apm_ctl { + u_int dev; + u_int mode; +}; +.Ed +.Pp +.Va dev +indicates the device, typically +.Dv APM_DEV_ALLDEVS . +.Pp +.Va mode +indicates the desired operating mode. +Possible values are +.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact -offset indent +.It Dv APM_SYS_READY +.It Dv APM_SYS_STANDBY +.It Dv APM_SYS_SUSPEND +.It Dv APM_SYS_OFF +.It Dv APM_LASTREQ_INPROG +.It Dv APM_LASTREQ_REJECTED +.El +.It Dv APM_IOC_PRN_CTL +.Pq Li "int" +This +.Xr ioctl 2 +controls message output by the APM +driver when a power change event is detected. +The integer parameter is one of: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Dv APM_PRINT_ON +All power change events result in a message. +This is the normal operating mode for the driver. +.It Dv APM_PRINT_OFF +Power change event messages are suppressed. +.It Dv APM_PRINT_PCT +Power change event messages are suppressed unless the estimated +battery life percentage changes. +.El +.El +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width "/dev/apmctlXXX" +.It /dev/apm +Power management data device. +May only be opened read-only. +May be opened by multiple concurrent users. +.It /dev/apmctl +Power management control device. +May be opened read-write or write-only. +May only be opened by one user at a time. +An attempt to open the file when in use will fail, returning +.Er EBUSY . +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr acpi 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr apm 8 , +.Xr apmd 8 , +.Xr halt 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver source code contains these copyrights: +.Pp +.Bl -item -compact +.It +.Li Copyright (c) 1995 John T. Kohl. All rights reserved. +.It +.Li Copyright (C) 1994 by HOSOKAWA Tatsumi <hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> +.El +.Pp +\&...and has been hacked on by many others since. +.Sh BUGS +Not all the BIOSes support power down the way we are attempting +to execute it. +.Pp +Not all BIOS vendors even read the specification. |
