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Subject: Re: ACPI and 3.0 specification
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M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <4367BCA6.5050609@root.org>
>             Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes:
> : 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.
> 
> PCIE and SATA sounds useful, and Ambient Light Sensor and User
> Presense device sounds both cool and ominous :-)  I agree with you
> about numa.

The best next move is probably for the maintainers of those subsystems 
to integrate acpi to begin with.   PCIe support appears to be underway. 
  I'm not sure about ATA but a good first step would be to associate an 
ACPI handle with each ATA bus (PRI, SEC, etc.)

-- 
Nate