From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: RE: ACPI processor module enhancements Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:07:58 +0200 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20041011090758.GA456@elf.ucw.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Brown, Len" Cc: Dominik Brodowski , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" , "Moore, Robert" , "Yu, Luming" List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi! > Re: ACPI 3.0 features > I think the ACPI 3.0 features will be evolutional. > I'll be most comfortable with new ACPI 3.0 code when > there are systems available to test that we got it right. > I'm not very eager to ship Linux code written to the spec just to > discover > later that the BIOS writers read the spec a different way; > but I know that is a risk we need to take sometimes. Well, at least BIOS writers will have something to test against. If we do not have any support for ACPI3, they will just test windows on prototypes... Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl