Re: Building ACPI for PPC architecture

Bjorn Helgaas
2006-10-23T15:43:12Z

On Monday 23 October 2006 04:36, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> You should try to build ACPI CA interpreter in user-space for your architecture first.
> Get it here: http://www.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm
> There is a big chance that you will find too many endian issues.

That is certainly an issue. I think HP-UX used to run the CA in
big-endian mode, so they probably sorted out some of the issues.
But I think it was an ongoing headache, so they finally gave up and
wrote wrappers to run the CA in little-endian mode while the rest
of the OS runs in big-endian mode.

Bjorn