Hi, On 12/13/2010 08:44 PM, siddharth srivastava wrote: > Some findings and discussions have lead to this conclusion that some > manufacturers have been duped into allowing there acpi code to be compiled > by m$ compiler
You got it a bit backwards. From the ACPI wikipedia entry: ------------------------------------------------- In computing, the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification provides an open standard for unified operating system-centric device configuration and power management. [...snip...] The standard was originally developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba ... ------------------------------------------------- and then right there in the first section itself ... ------------------------------------------------- Some software developers have trouble implementing ACPI and express concerns about the requirements that bytecode from an external source must be run by the system with full privileges.[5] Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, once described it as "a complete design disaster in every way", in relation to his view that "modern PCs are horrible".[6] ------------------------------------------------- So, it is not like acpi has to be /compiled/ with a M$ compiler (I am not even sure what that is supposed to mean). It is more like ACPI has to be /implemented/ using a 600 page specification designed by M$, which almost necessitates the acpi subsystem to include an entire freaking 'parser' as a driver[2] if one wants to use it as intended. Of course, as is M$'s nature, their idea of a specification is stuff that others ought to implement although they are free to make exceptions and since h/w manufactures are happy just confirming to the M$ subset of the specifications, implementations that do actually confirm to the specification still might not work as expected. ...sigh. cheers, - steve [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACPI_Machine_Language#Firmware_Interface http://www.advogato.org/article/913.html -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
