From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 14 2:25:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (dhcp45-21.dis.org [216.240.45.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EBE337B400; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:25:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0EAPTt04251; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:25:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200201141025.g0EAPTt04251@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Petr Holub" Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , rob@pythonemproject.com, jhb@FreeBSD.ORG, jgowdy@home.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:12:09 +0100." <008901c19cdb$8b6138e0$2603fb93@kloboucek> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:25:29 -0800 From: Michael Smith 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 > > 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. You are unfortunately sadly mistaken. You can't just backport "some" of ACPI; it's like being "a little bit" pregnant. And frankly, battery state reporting is probably the least interesting reason to get ACPI into a production release; what really counts (and what is hurting us the most) is system resource management and device configuration. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message