RE: Userspace ACPI interpreter ( was RE: [ACPI] [RFC] dev_acpi: support for userspace access to acpi)

Yu, Luming
2004-10-29T03:02:39Z

>On Wednesday 27 October 2004 10:04 pm, Yu, Luming wrote:
>> On IA64 platform, ACPI interpreter seems to be mandatory for those
>> stuff, but IA32 is not. So, the ram disk is the generic solution
>> for loading user space interpreter for boot.
>
>In two sentences: If you want to play with moving the interpreter
>to user-space, please do so, and do it on ia64, so you have to
>deal with the interesting problems.
>
>And this whole thing is a gigantic tangent that is only distracting
>attention from the real question at hand, namely, Alex's dev_acpi
>patch, which exists today and enables some very interesting new
>functionality.
>

Yes, I agree Alex's dev_acpi is interesting, which could result in
the removal of some acpi specific drive such as battery.c, button.c,
fan.c, thermal.c .... So, I raised the question of userspace ACPI
interpreter. Intuitively, userspace is the right place for interpreter.

Thanks,
Luming