From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 14 2:15:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1F737B416 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:15:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 30772 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2002 10:15:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Jan 2002 10:15:54 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <008901c19cdb$8b6138e0$2603fb93@kloboucek> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:15:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Petr Holub Subject: RE: ACPI Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, jgowdy@home.com, rob@pythonemproject.com, "M. Warner Losh" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 14-Jan-02 Petr Holub wrote: >> Backporting all of ACPI is likely to be difficult. It has tendrils >> into a lot of different parts of the system. I'd love to see it back >> ported as well, but I suspect that the time it will take to do it will >> mean that it isn't MFC'd until after 5.0 is released. > > Well - what I was thinking about was to backport only some > parts of it. I do understand that backporting all the features > for all the drivers would mean tremendous effort. But backporting > only the very basic features like battery reporting shouldn't > be so difficult. And this is the most important feature I miss. It's not that simple. ACPI is not a collectino of device drivers, it's an all-or-nothing deal, and we don't even do all of it in current yet. Once you start using ACPI, you basically tell the BIOS you are going to manage it all yourself, you don't get to let the BIOS handle part of it and you handle just the parts you want to handle. -- 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-mobile" in the body of the message