From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:22:05 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]:13502 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:21:45 +0100 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j6MLNwSJ008162; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:23:58 -0400 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j6MLNwVQ008161; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:23:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:23:57 -0400 From: Ralf Baechle To: Clark Williams Cc: Rodolfo Giometti , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Battery status Message-ID: <20050722212357.GE3770@linux-mips.org> References: <20050722142205.GE21044@enneenne.com> <1122044036.10743.5.camel@riff> <20050722191732.GB3770@linux-mips.org> <1122066616.10743.33.camel@riff> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1122066616.10743.33.camel@riff> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 8620 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 04:10:16PM -0500, Clark Williams wrote: > > Forget it. One of the great advantages of MIPS is that Intel has ACPI. > > On the open Richter scale for stupidity ACPI in computing is a 9.8. > > I never said that I liked ACPI, just that I liked the /proc interface. > I'm not really a fan of putting an interpreter into the system > firmware... Okay. I was assuming of somebody says ACPI he must mean ACPI ... Ralf