[OLPC-devel] Why ACPI DSDT tables?
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Jul 10 10:36:11 EDT 2006
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 10:34 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> How much/whether we'll use any of the ACPI stuff is far from clear; as
> Dave says, it is not very useful for us.
>
> That being said, having a DSDT table may be helpful for those who are
> silly enough to want to run some other operating system ;-). So I don't
> see it doing much/any harm to provide one.
True -- but we probably don't need to actually put it in our 'BIOS' --
we can just provide it for download in case they want to do something
stupid.
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dwmw2
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