From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: "Ozan Çağlayan" <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suggested readings about ACPI
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:06:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110117020630.GA14058@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D33672D.6040804@pardus.org.tr>
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:46:21PM +0200, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to get my hands dirty about ACPI and ACPI on Linux. I started
> reading the spec but I don't know how far can I progress with it :)
Try starting with version 1.0 of the spec - the core functionality
hasn't changed much, and it's *much* shorter than the current version.
> I also found some driver examples for ACPI and WMI on LWN. There's Colin
> Ian King's blog which seems very rich in terms of debugging.
>
> Any other suggestions, readings, guidings, do's and dont-do's would be
> very much appreciated.
I haven't seen any good introductory guides to ACPI, but I've presented
on it often enough now that it might be worth me writing one.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-17 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-16 21:46 Suggested readings about ACPI Ozan Çağlayan
2011-01-17 2:06 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-01-17 4:46 ` Len Brown
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