Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 06:35:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 06:35:40 -0400 Received: from gadget.lut.ac.uk ([158.125.96.50]:20495 "EHLO gadget.lut.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 06:35:25 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7 In-Reply-To: Message from Alan Cox of "Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:57:34 BST." Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:35:23 +0100 From: Martin Hamilton Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Alan Cox writes: | Adding a bloated interpreter for an obscure, misdesigned bios hardware | description language is simply not my idea of progress. Pardon me for butting in, but perhaps this is relevant... I've seen the odd program which manipulates the ACPI tables/registers directly rather than through an ASL compiler then an AML interpreter. These appear to use the "magic numbers" which the interpreter would eventually spit out. Being a newbie on ACPI internals (still ploughing through the 400 page 'specification' document), I'm not sure whether there would be nasty implications from doing this on a larger scale - e.g. needing to tweak those magic numbers for each and every ACPI BIOS implementation. Back in the real world, some people using ACPI BIOSes (e.g. owners of recent Sony Vaio boxes like my C1VE) are finding that the legacy APM support is losing when they try to do things like suspend to disk. A minimalist ACPI implementation could be just the ticket... Just wondering if people have any thoughts on this! Cheers, Martin PS Blatant plug :-) I've set up a mailing list for people doing Linux stuff on the Sony C1's: http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-c1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 + martin iD8DBQE63BxrVw+hz3xBJfQRAhZEAJ9wYOmOpbaA4z0qZpSmn43IGJJZdgCfbLo7 L9ZG4E/Z97LI87u5iK+TOvY= =/ItG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/