From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 26 12:14:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles530.castles.com [208.214.165.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 659F91539D for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:14:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13438; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:06:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909261906.MAA13438@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mitsuru IWASAKI Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experimental ACPI driver. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 25 Sep 1999 04:20:03 +0900." <199909241917.EAA06519@tasogare.imasy.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:06:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, there. > > > We wrote experimental ACPI driver for 4.0-CURRENT. > > This was just one week work so its functionallity is very very poor :-) > but I think it is good idea to start with this for developping ACPI > driver for FreeBSD because it is enough small to understand it. I'm not sure this is the right way to go about it, although I haven't looked at your code yet. APCI is a big animal, and I think it's going to take a proper design to get it right. The key components would appear to be a full AML parser, an object manager to manage the ACPI namespace, and an AML interpreter to run the AML methods. > If someone already started wriring ACPI devive driver, please let us > know. We'd like to merge them and would be happy in collaboration > with you. Both Doug Rabson and myself have been tinkering with this, and there's someone that's been looking at an AML parser/interpreter in the last couple of weeks. At this point in time, the parser and object manager are the most vital components. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message