From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 17 10:42:18 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 613DA37B40B for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:42:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729AB43F3F for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:42:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 31834 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2003 18:42:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 17 Jan 2003 18:42:17 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0HIgAUT019054; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:42:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3E270673.EDF92282@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:42:10 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Nate Lawson 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 On 16-Jan-2003 Terry Lambert wrote: > 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. Are you offering to write a new ACPI parser? If not, then put up or shut up. It's not exactly a trivial task. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message