Subject: Re: ACPI
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/12/2000 09:04:40
>> Is anyone working for ACPI support ?
>> Hpcmips needs power management mechanism. And I found
>> that ACPI is informative and interesting to me. Legacy APM spec
>> and NetBSD's APM driver depend on i386 CPU too much and,
>> therefore, other platforms including Hpcmips can't use them.
>> However, ACPI might work on Hpcmips as well as 386.

	I'm not sure why ACPI works on hpcmips while APM does not.
	Does WinCE use ACPI and its pseudo instructions?

>Adam Glass (who is no longer a developer but who gives us advice)
>keeps pushing for us to do ACPI. I'm not aware of anyone currently
>working on it, but that is not to say that there might not be someone.

	There are group of Japanese who are doing ACPI pseudo instruction
	parser for FreeBSD.
	http://home.jp.FreeBSD.org/mail-list/acpi-jp/
	Should be good as starting point.

itojun