RE: [Linux-ia64] CONFIG_IA64_L1_CACHE_SHIFT

David Mosberger
2001-03-05T19:37:39Z

>>>>> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:30:18 -0800 , "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com> said:

Andrew> In the future, when we have achieved certain functional
Andrew> power management milestones under Linux and a significant
Andrew> number of developers have come to understand the complexity
Andrew> of the ACPI subsystem, it makes sense that the code be
Andrew> optimized explicitly for the target OS environment. We
Andrew> expect that this will happen over time for each OS vendor -
Andrew> the OS vendor should start maintaining and advancing their
Andrew> OS specific ACPI implementation.

Yes, I agree with this. My mail wasn't so much meant to critize the
existing code (like you say: it does what it is designed for...) but
to encourage others to think about developing a leaner, more tightly
integrated version for Linux. I think it would be a nice challenge to
see what could be done in this area, but it would definitely be a
non-trivial project.

--david