while we're on power mgt and ACPI, is there a loose roadmap for ACPI to
have the userspace hooks to support powerd and the like, so we get
speedstep and other goodness which right now is only in APM?

I know there are bound to be some MI issues here, but 99.99998% of the
laptop world is Intel/AMD+ACPI now, and it would be neat (tm) to be
able to use it. 

-G