"BALBIR SINGH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not sure if this has been discussed already on this > list. > > ACPI seems to be supported by most of the commercial vendor > BIOS's. Are there any plans/implementations that will support > ACPI in LinuxBios. This is just more of please update me > question. I am not a proponent of ACPI and not very well > versed with it.
ACPI is an interesting conglomeration of standards, and it comes in a couple of pieces. - A table of that points to various configuration tables in the system. - A device tree represented as a pile of AML code, for the kernel to interpret. The idea with ACPI is that the policy and the control should go in the kernel, and in the device drivers. With LinuxBIOS and everything being open source writing AML code, instead of just writing/updating the appropriate driver seems silly. The table of pointers to well know configuration is a good idea, that I will probably explore. LinuxBIOS has pushed just about as far as it can go without incorporating explicit support in the kernel for it. Device trees can be represented with a pure table instead of needing code to implement them. And without code they should be much more reliable so that is the route LinuxBIOS is likely to take. All of this is just the LinuxBIOS native interface. If someone wants to load code to have LinuxBIOS look like a more traditional BIOS they can but we haven't started concentrating in that area yet. Eric
