From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org>
To: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
"Moore,
Robert" <robert.moore-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org>,
linux-kernel
<linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Userspace ACPI interpreter ( was RE: [RFC] dev_acpi: support for userspace access to acpi)
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:18:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410280918.28485.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F84041ABFFA@pdsmsx403>
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 10:04 pm, Yu, Luming wrote:
> On IA64 platform, ACPI interpreter seems to be mandatory for those
> stuff, but IA32 is not. So, the ram disk is the generic solution
> for loading user space interpreter for boot.
In two sentences: If you want to play with moving the interpreter
to user-space, please do so, and do it on ia64, so you have to
deal with the interesting problems.
And this whole thing is a gigantic tangent that is only distracting
attention from the real question at hand, namely, Alex's dev_acpi
patch, which exists today and enables some very interesting new
functionality.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-28 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-28 4:04 Userspace ACPI interpreter ( was RE: [ACPI] [RFC] dev_acpi: support for userspace access to acpi) Yu, Luming
2004-10-28 5:37 ` Len Brown
[not found] ` <418085B0.30208-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2004-10-28 15:24 ` Userspace ACPI interpreter ( was " Theodore Ts'o
2004-10-29 4:48 ` Userspace ACPI interpreter ( was RE: [ACPI] " Len Brown
2004-10-29 4:58 ` Userspace ACPI interpreter ( was " Andi Kleen
2004-10-28 15:18 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
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2004-10-29 2:40 Yu, Luming
2004-10-29 2:51 Yu, Luming
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