On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > The BIOS simply provides "knowledge" to the OS, in the form of ACPI > tables. The OS does the heavy lifting.
well one of the folks on the ACPI committee told me that ACPI BIOS would also cycle-steal if enabled. Also, a number of ACPI functions require BIOS calls to work. This may have changed ... ron
