From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:14:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]:2757 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:13:55 +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 j6MMG8pL009623; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:16:08 -0400 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j6MMG8jk009622; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:16:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:16:08 -0400 From: Ralf Baechle To: Clark Williams Cc: Rodolfo Giometti , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Battery status Message-ID: <20050722221608.GF3770@linux-mips.org> References: <20050722142205.GE21044@enneenne.com> <1122044036.10743.5.camel@riff> <20050722191732.GB3770@linux-mips.org> <1122066616.10743.33.camel@riff> <20050722212357.GE3770@linux-mips.org> <1122070078.10743.35.camel@riff> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1122070078.10743.35.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: 8622 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 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