From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Userspace ACPI interpreter ( was RE: [ACPI] [RFC] dev_acpi: support
 for userspace access to acpi)
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:37:52 -0400
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To: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>, "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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One way to experiment with a user-mode ACPI interpreter would be to 
continue to use the kernel-mode interpreter for boot up , and cut over 
to the user-mode interpreter at /sbin/init.  The kernel-mode interpreter 
could be sent the way of free_initmem() which is called just before 
/sbin/init is invoked.

-Len