David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > What type of impact, if any, does the use of LinuxBIOS have on the
> > power management scheme, since, to the best of my knowledge, these are
> > usually hooked into the BIOS in some way. I'm referring to either APM
> > or ACPI schemes.
>
> APM is not going to be supported. There's been some talk of doing ACPI
> by just copying the tables from the BIOS which comes with the board.
> It's not clear that would be legal.
>
> Neither would it be desirable - ACPI is a steaming pile of overengineered
> shi^H^H^Hwossname, apparently designed to allow motherboard manufacturers
> to run the equivalent of binary-only Java bytecode in privileged mode. If
> you tell me you want it in an embedded system, I'm going to have to send
> the boys in to take your crackpipe away.
>
> Best bet is to write proper power management code for the devices in
> question, IMO. You can probably reverse-engineer the ACPI bytecode without
> too much difficulty - that may be illegal where you are but your employer
> has offices in the Free World too. :)
>
David,
You are one of Red Hat U.K., aren't you ?
Ollie
