On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:42:14 +0200, Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
wrote:

> 
> The ACPI table doesn't always have information about that, anyway.  For
> example, a lot of desktop CPUs support EST, but you never find
> information in the APCI table because the motherboard maker simply
> doesn't control what CPU you put in it.  Also, I was surprised but the
> table in Simon's laptop doesn't contain that information either.  So
> even if we had the few bits to get the information from the ACPI table,
> we'd still need static tables for other situations.
> 
Thanks -- I'm reassured.


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb