Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:55:07 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c Message-ID: <20031204215507.GK54398@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20031204213558.GB52636@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20031204.111430.78763615.imp@bsdimp.com> <XFMail.20031204144302.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20031204210904.GI54398@funkthat.com> <20031204213558.GB52636@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote this message on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 13:35 -0800:
> I think it's time people read the ACPI specification and try to
> understand how things are supposed to work, including on non-i386
> platforms. I don't think I've heard of anything more silly than
> having a table (disguised as a device) attach to a bus (which is
> what ACPI disguises as).
Should we get into the whole discussion how silly it is to think of
amd64 as a tree when it's really a graph, and the whole bus that doesn't
exist (nexus0) on UP boxes? :) Along with all the busses that aren't
really, but need to be busses since that's how newbus talks about them.
I only was proposing away to hook it in to make it a module using an
existing infastructure. I assume that the madt may/can be replaced
with a difference enumerator, since the apic can have multiple
different enumerators.
So, where is a website we could download the documentation from? :)
A quick google search turned up nothing.
P.S. I think it's time people read some newbus docs.
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