Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262783AbUJ1FiJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:38:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262790AbUJ1FiJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:38:09 -0400 Received: from fmr11.intel.com ([192.55.52.31]:3781 "EHLO fmsfmr004.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262787AbUJ1FiE (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:38:04 -0400 Message-ID: <418085B0.30208@intel.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:37:52 -0400 From: Len Brown User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Yu, Luming" CC: Bjorn Helgaas , "Moore, Robert" , Alex Williamson , linux-kernel , acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Userspace ACPI interpreter ( was RE: [ACPI] [RFC] dev_acpi: support for userspace access to acpi) References: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F84041ABFFA@pdsmsx403> In-Reply-To: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F84041ABFFA@pdsmsx403> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 558 Lines: 13 One way to experiment with a user-mode ACPI interpreter would be to continue to use the kernel-mode interpreter for boot up , and cut over to the user-mode interpreter at /sbin/init. The kernel-mode interpreter could be sent the way of free_initmem() which is called just before /sbin/init is invoked. -Len - 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/