ACPI and 3.0 specification

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 09:48:47PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >In message: <4367BCA6.5050609 at root.org>
> >            Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> writes:
> >: 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.
> >
> >PCIE and SATA sounds useful, and Ambient Light Sensor and User
> >Presense device sounds both cool and ominous :-)  I agree with you
> >about numa.
> 
> The best next move is probably for the maintainers of those subsystems 
> to integrate acpi to begin with.   PCIe support appears to be underway. 
>  I'm not sure about ATA but a good first step would be to associate an 
> ACPI handle with each ATA bus (PRI, SEC, etc.)

ATA support would be nice since I think it's needed to fix the Thinkpad
docking problem correctly.

-- Brooks

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