Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:47:57 +0100 From: "Petr Holub" <hopet@ics.muni.cz> To: "Michael Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, <rob@pythonemproject.com>, <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, <jgowdy@home.com>, <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: ACPI Message-ID: <009001c19ce8$edd883e0$2603fb93@kloboucek> In-Reply-To: <200201141025.g0EAPTt04251@mass.dis.org>
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> You can't just backport "some" of ACPI; it's like being "a little bit"
> pregnant.
> 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.
OK :-(.
> 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.
Well I understant that's developer's point of view. I think user's point
of view (mine ;o) ) could be a bit different. User is probably very interested
in when the battery power goes down even if he (or rather to say kernel)
is not able to reduce power consumption (stand by etc.) or other nifty
features of ACPI. But now I understand that's impossible to do it without
the other part.
Petr
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Petr Holub
CESNET z.s.p.o. Supercomputing Center Brno
Zikova 2 Institute of Compt. Science
10200 Praha, CZ Masaryk University
Czech Republic Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno, CZ
e-mail: Petr.Holub@cesnet.cz phone: +420-5-41512278
e-mail: hopet@ics.muni.cz
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