From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 16 11:23:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F30237B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:23:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B74C043E4A for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:23:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0018.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.18] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18ZFcB-0000MJ-00; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:23:48 -0800 Message-ID: <3E270673.EDF92282@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:22:27 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Lawson Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4cfed2bf9c23c37ca49d12d646935588f350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Lawson wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Repeat: These machines work fine under Windows; the problem > > is not the BIOS, it's the OS's ASL interpreter. > > There's another wrinkle in that the interpreter is supplied by Intel. > Some difficulties were _introduced_ by them, notably the strict var scope > checking. That's a good idea. For them. For FreeBSD, it means eating the pain, so that Intel gets what it wants: technical people bitching at vendors to conform to the standard, while not impacting the vast majority of Windows and other non-technical customers. For Intel, this is a win-win. For FreeBSD, unless Windows adopts the same code (which it will not do, since doing so will limit their market, just as using the code is currently limiting FreeBSD's market), it's a lose-lose. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message