apm on amd64 (FreeBSD 12.1)

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 20:58:19 +0100
Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx at webweaving.org> wrote:

> After a recent upgrade to 12.1 release - I noticed that
> rc.d/apm is specific to i386; and cannot be enabled on amd64.
> 
> Does that mean that AMD64 laptops no longer need APM for good
> power management* ?  Any man-page or 'updating' notes one can
> study to understand ?
> 
> *) As prior; enabling it on an Thinkpad X270 appeared to make
> the battery last a lot longer during lengthy suspends.
> 

apm seems to have been replaced by acpi(4).

-- 
Gary Jennejohn