ACPI support

Stefan Reinauer stepan at suse.de
Thu Mar 11 09:10:01 CET 2004


* ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [040311 15:16]:
> On 11 Mar 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > If the BIOS has to implement services an interpreted byte code where the
> > kernel provides the interpreter at least gives the kernel guys the
> > option of catching bugs, and working around them.  I completely prefer
> > AML over BIOS callbacks.
> 
> YES!

In case of broken 16bit bioses there might be a point. But for us I
don't really see the difference. If it's broken, we can fix it. Even
when using callbacks, can't we?
 
   Stefan

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  Stefan Reinauer, SUSE LINUX AG
Head of Architecture Development



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