ACPI and 3.0 specification

[Nate Lawson]

Mathieu Prevot wrote:
>> acpi 3.0 adds very little useful stuff unless you're interested in  
>> large NUMA machines.  We'd be better off implementing more support  
>> for those systems in the main kernel and then acpi, not the other  way 
>> around.
>>
>> -- 
>> Nate
> 
> 
> Thanks for these pieces of information. Do you implement first in the  
> kernel for performance only ? It seems to be the hard way.
> Regards

It's in the kernel because the kernel needs it for configuration.  When 
probing the bus topology, no user code is even runnable yet.

-- 
Nate