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Function 49 - Advanced Power Management (APM)

Options:

· eax = 49 - function number

· dx = APM function number (analogue of ax in the specification)

· bx, cx = APM function parameters

Return value:

· 16-bit registers ax, bx, cx, dx, si, di and flag CF Installed according to APM specification

· the older half of the 32-bit registers eax, ebx, ecx, edx, esi, edi are destroyed

Remarks:

  The APM 1.2 specification is described in the Advanced Power Management (APM) BIOS Specification (Revision 1.2), available at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/amp_12.mspx; it is also included in the famous Interrupt List by Ralf Brown (http://www.pobox.com/~ralf/files.html, ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/ralf/pub/).

Constants for registers:

eax - SF_APM (49)