> BTW, what are the reasons behind the need to actually
> use the BIOS and not driving the hardware directly,
> at least for the most common hw? The majority
> of users simply want only the powerdown feature.
>
> Is the hw so different and / or proprietary,
> or are there technical reasons?
You could probably do it directly fairly easily for common Intel and VIA
ATX chipsets. Things like laptops are another matter already. In addition
some apparently normal machines have little suprises you need to account for.
So since the APM bios works (well for almost everyone) we use that.
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