From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 18:03:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4042D16A41F for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:03:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB8E843D46 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:03:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jA9I3NWP029088; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:03:23 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id jA9I3NXH029087; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:03:23 -0800 Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:03:23 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Nate Lawson Message-ID: <20051109180323.GA12837@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <78F7D8FC-B5AA-4723-8336-E60F873D9414@club-internet.fr> <4367BCA6.5050609@root.org> <20051108.222747.63047404.imp@bsdimp.com> <43718DBF.40302@root.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43718DBF.40302@root.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI and 3.0 specification X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:03:32 -0000 --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 09:48:47PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > M. Warner Losh wrote: > >In message: <4367BCA6.5050609@root.org> > > Nate Lawson writes: > >: acpi 3.0 adds very little useful stuff unless you're interested in lar= ge=20 > >: NUMA machines. We'd be better off implementing more support for those= =20 > >: 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. >=20 > The best next move is probably for the maintainers of those subsystems=20 > to integrate acpi to begin with. PCIe support appears to be underway.= =20 > I'm not sure about ATA but a good first step would be to associate an=20 > ACPI handle with each ATA bus (PRI, SEC, etc.) ATA support would be nice since I think it's needed to fix the Thinkpad docking problem correctly. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDcjnqXY6L6fI4GtQRAplPAKC+moK0P+jiFut+USBv+dvdahX7gQCfSj2n /ERKNzXjDHkP2Nc6yPzunW8= =6pTe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4--