Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: sfi-devel@simplefirmware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2.6.32] Simple Firmware Interface (SFI): initial support
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On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> 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?

Please let me know if your questions are not thoroughly answered here:
http://simplefirmware.org/faq

thanks,
-Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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