Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:28:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI project progress report - Nov. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911292022230.325-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199911291523.AAA00320@tasogare.imasy.or.jp>
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On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > 5. AML interpreter implementation > We've just started based on Doug Rabson's acpitest program, but > parsing AML and managing objects in the name space are almost > finished. We're going to make configuration utility first with AML > interpreter in the userland, then move it to kernel space after brush > it out. > Please see > http://www.jp.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ACPI/util/acpiconf?cvsroot=freebsd-jp This sounds very promising. I will check out the code soon and try to give feedback. Creating the ACPI namespace is a necessary first step before its possible to do full AML interpreting. > > > In the beginning of this project, we thought merging them to > 4.0-RELEASE would be very much exciting, but it seems the codes are > still young to merge and 4.0-RELEASE feature freeze is comming soon. > We will try another chance, hopefully we have AML interpreter in > kernel space at that time. I think we should aim to do most of the work in 5.0 after we branch off 4.0. Perhaps some of it can be back-ported after it become stable in 5.0. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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