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Hi,

Doug Rabson wrote:
> > Please see
> > http://www.jp.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ACPI/util/acpiconf?cvsroot=freebsd-jp
> 
> This sounds very promising. I will check out the code soon and try to give
> feedback. Creating the ACPI namespace is a necessary first step before its
> possible to do full AML interpreting.

Thanks!  I'm now preparing also own memory management subsystem to
avoid memory leakage in kernel space and to utilize VM efficiently.
I believe it should be also one of the important things.

> > In the beginning of this project, we thought merging them to
> > 4.0-RELEASE would be very much exciting, but it seems the codes are
> > still young to merge and 4.0-RELEASE feature freeze is comming soon.
> > We will try another chance, hopefully we have AML interpreter in
> > kernel space at that time.
> 
> I think we should aim to do most of the work in 5.0 after we branch off
> 4.0. Perhaps some of it can be back-ported after it become stable in 5.0.

OK, we'll do best we can do aiming merge into 5.0-CURRENT.

Warner Losh wrote:
> Cool.  This is indeed good news.  Keep up the good reports.
> 
> iwasaki-san to acpi-jp wa domo arigato gozaimasu.

We will!  We shall keep the reports periodically (maybe monthly? of
course depending on our progress).  I think that we, folks in Japan,
learned enough communications won't hurt anything.
# Dou itasimasite :-)

Doug Rabson and Warner Losh, thanks for your valuable advice and words
of encouragement.


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