On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Devon H. O'Dell<devon.od...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/7/8 Uriel <urie...@gmail.com>: >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Devon H. O'Dell<devon.od...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I don't think so. We already have IPv6 support and it's not that bad. >>> Having more drivers and supported commodity architectures would be a >>> good thing. I'd love to do this, but I don't think anybody's going to >>> match my salary to port drivers, do ACPI, add amd64 support for >>> workstations, etc. >> >> ACPI will never, ever, ever happen, so people better get over it (and >> if anyone is naive enough to waste their time trying, it will end up >> as a useless atrocious mess that wont boot even in a 100th of the >> systems out there, much less suspend or do anything useful). > > ACPI support doesn't need to suspend or do thermal zones. It just > needs to be able to read the ADT and get MP / interrupt routing table > information. This is doable. Have you ever read any of the ACPI spec? > I have.
The spec doesn't matter much, given that most BIOS out there totally ignore it. >> As for amd64, it is already done, we are just not worthy to have access to >> it. > > Without this getting into a holy war, what Geoff told me was that the > amd64 work was for headless CPU servers, which is only mildly useful > to me anyway. If it was released perhaps somebody would add the missing drivers, who knows... As things stand, we will never know. uriel
