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

Bjorn Helgaas
2004-10-28T15:24:29Z

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.