From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey_y_starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: rajeshprabhu72721 <rajeshprabhu72721@indiatimes.com>,
linux-pm@lists.osdl.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Building ACPI for PPC architecture
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:43:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610230943.13125.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <453C9B23.4020706@linux.intel.com>
On Monday 23 October 2006 04:36, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> You should try to build ACPI CA interpreter in user-space for your architecture first.
> Get it here: http://www.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm
> There is a big chance that you will find too many endian issues.
That is certainly an issue. I think HP-UX used to run the CA in
big-endian mode, so they probably sorted out some of the issues.
But I think it was an ongoing headache, so they finally gave up and
wrote wrappers to run the CA in little-endian mode while the rest
of the OS runs in big-endian mode.
Bjorn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-23 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-23 8:30 Building ACPI for PPC architecture rajeshprabhu72721
2006-10-23 10:36 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-10-23 15:43 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2006-10-23 23:02 ` [linux-pm] " Paul Mackerras
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