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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:31:53 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: sfi-devel@simplefirmware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2.6.32] Simple Firmware Interface (SFI): initial
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There seems to be a huge amount of overlap between SFI and ACPI. 
Couldn't this have simply taken the form of some additional ACPI tables 
and a decoupling of ACPI enumeration from runtime AML interpretation? 
How final is this spec?

I realise that we're pretty much constrained to implementing this if 
hardware actually ships with it, but it seems to be an additional 
firmware interface with no real benefit - as far as I can tell it's not 
possible for a platform to meaningfully implement both ACPI and SFI 
without duplicating information?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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