Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932481AbWHaXMu (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:12:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751182AbWHaXMu (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:12:50 -0400 Received: from atlrel9.hp.com ([156.153.255.214]:34238 "EHLO atlrel9.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750864AbWHaXMt (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:12:49 -0400 From: Bjorn Helgaas To: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] ACPI: Idle Processor PM Improvements Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:13:20 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" , Adam Belay , "Brown, Len" , ACPI ML , Linux Kernel ML , Dominik Brodowski , Arjan van de Ven , devel@laptop.org References: <20060830194317.GA9116@srcf.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20060830194317.GA9116@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608311713.21618.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 760 Lines: 14 On Wednesday 30 August 2006 13:43, Matthew Garrett wrote: > That would be helpful. For the One Laptop Per Child project (or whatever > it's called today), it would be advantageous to run without acpi. Out of curiosity, what is the motivation for running without acpi? It costs a lot to diverge from the mainstream in areas like that, so there must be a big payoff. But maybe if OLPC depends on acpi being smarter about power or code size or whatever, those improvements could be made and everybody would benefit. - 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/