From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Suggested readings about ACPI Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:06:30 +0000 Message-ID: <20110117020630.GA14058@srcf.ucam.org> References: <4D33672D.6040804@pardus.org.tr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:59306 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751798Ab1AQCGf (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:06:35 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D33672D.6040804@pardus.org.tr> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Ozan =?utf-8?B?w4dhxJ9sYXlhbg==?= Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:46:21PM +0200, Ozan =C3=87a=C4=9Flayan wrote= : > Hi, > > I want to get my hands dirty about ACPI and ACPI on Linux. I started = =20 > 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=20 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 Co= lin =20 > Ian King's blog which seems very rich in terms of debugging. > > Any other suggestions, readings, guidings, do's and dont-do's would b= e =20 > very much appreciated. I haven't seen any good introductory guides to ACPI, but I've presented= =20 on it often enough now that it might be worth me writing one. --=20 Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html