On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 07:53 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:42 AM, David Woodhouse
<dwmw2(a)infradead.org> wrote:
> I assume Alex won't be including an interpreter for closed-source ACPI
> bytecode in his kernel. So it's likely to have problems on a lot of i386
> and x86_64 machines. Should be OK on PPC though :)
It would however be fascinating to see how many machines fall over and
die in the attempt. I like your action plan concerning the firmware
conversion, but what the hell do i know. If your plan ever makes it
to an upstream technical discussion, I want to make sure I know about
so I can read along.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/23/170
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dwmw2