Subject: Re: ACPI
To: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@turbolinux.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/13/2000 09:08:33
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:02:57AM -0700, Eduardo Horvath wrote:

 > I understand one of Intel's goals it to use ACPI as a general device
 > identification system, somewhat like OpenFirmware is used by Sun and
 > Apple.  It's supposed to be the only method of identifying what's on an
 > ia64 machine.

No, that's perfectly fine.  But it shouldn't be the MI power API.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>