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Subject: RE: [PATCH] APM: delete APM in Linux-2.6.40
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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