From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 19:37:39 +0000 Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] CONFIG_IA64_L1_CACHE_SHIFT Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:30:18 -0800 , "Grover, Andrew" 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