From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 14 2:48:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.ics.muni.cz (aragorn.ics.muni.cz [147.251.4.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A4B37B416; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:48:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from dior.ics.muni.cz (dior.ics.muni.cz [147.251.6.10]) by aragorn.ics.muni.cz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA29048; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:48:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from kloboucek (root@localhost) (authenticated as hopet with LOGIN) by dior.ics.muni.cz (8.10.1/8.10.0.Beta12) with ESMTP id g0EAmmK06716; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:48:48 +0100 (MET) From: "Petr Holub" To: "Michael Smith" Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , , , , Subject: RE: ACPI Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:47:57 +0100 Message-ID: <009001c19ce8$edd883e0$2603fb93@kloboucek> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <200201141025.g0EAPTt04251@mass.dis.org> Importance: Normal 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 > 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 ================================================================ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message