[Fwd: Re: Linuxbios and Linspire laptop]

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Wed Jun 2 11:01:01 CEST 2004


On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> One thing that is generally good about ACPI (well in some sense) is that
> it is free of callbacks, which I often hear as a disadvantage of Open
> Firmware's interface. (While dropping callbacks in OF is just a matter
> of directly providing the FCode drivers to the OS and let a hosted Open
> Source OF implementation use it there)

What would be neat is to decompile an ACPI table from binary, and ship 
that in the linuxbios image. THen you get most flexibility.

Or am I nuts?

ron




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