Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070504 14:02]: > > Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > > * Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070504 06:38]: > > > > > Mitch wrote a fast path resume from RAM for the OLPC Geode > > > > > hardware. Once you've done that, you find that you've done just > > > > > about everything to initialize the hardware in the first place; so > > > > > that code is now used both at boot time and at suspend from RAM > > > > > time. > > > > > > > > I suppose this was done by relying on the ACPI tables? > > > > > > No, no ACPI involved. > > > > Not even the init tables ACPI depends on? > > What init tables?
I think they are called something like DST... You know, the one part in any legacy BIOS. > No, OLPC uses no ACPI. So they probably have their own tables? > > > Definitely. This is already happening - There is a GSoC project (going > > > to be done by Jens Freimann) to get a better integration between OFW > > > and LB done. > > > > I was more thinking of merging the projects; or is there an advantage of > > keeping them separate? > > This is like merging the Linux kernel and glibc. They're doing different > stuff. But, I thought OFW is a BIOS replacement and more. No? Does OLPC still depend on LinuxBIOS? Or on some other BIOS. The picture isn't clear. Thanks! -- Al -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
