Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:55:17 -0800 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Mathieu Prevot <bsdhack@club-internet.fr> Cc: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ACPI and 3.0 specification Message-ID: <436D0E25.6090201@root.org> In-Reply-To: <091FFA92-6E5C-4E15-A86F-D158E463A9D3@club-internet.fr> References: <78F7D8FC-B5AA-4723-8336-E60F873D9414@club-internet.fr> <4367BCA6.5050609@root.org> <091FFA92-6E5C-4E15-A86F-D158E463A9D3@club-internet.fr>
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Mathieu Prevot wrote: >> acpi 3.0 adds very little useful stuff unless you're interested in >> large NUMA machines. We'd be better off implementing more support >> for those systems in the main kernel and then acpi, not the other way >> around. >> >> -- >> Nate > > > Thanks for these pieces of information. Do you implement first in the > kernel for performance only ? It seems to be the hard way. > Regards It's in the kernel because the kernel needs it for configuration. When probing the bus topology, no user code is even runnable yet. -- Nate
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