From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Battery status
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:16:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050722221608.GF3770@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1122070078.10743.35.camel@riff>
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 05:07:58PM -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 ...
>
> Heh. You and David Woodhouse both go nuclear when someone says ACPI :)
Well, and on Monday Linus said about ACPI BIOS writers in front of 80
kernel developers and an Intel guy on stage "BIOS writers are morons".
Nobody did object and 30s later that was /topic on the #kernel irc
channel ...
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-22 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-22 14:22 Battery status Rodolfo Giometti
2005-07-22 14:53 ` Clark Williams
2005-07-22 15:14 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2005-07-22 15:25 ` Clark Williams
2005-07-22 15:34 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2005-07-22 19:08 ` Clark Williams
2005-07-23 12:17 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2005-07-22 19:17 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-07-22 21:10 ` Clark Williams
2005-07-22 21:23 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-07-22 22:07 ` Clark Williams
2005-07-22 22:16 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2005-07-22 23:14 ` Alan Cox
2005-07-25 12:00 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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