[OLPC-devel] Why ACPI DSDT tables?

[Jim Gettys]

Reflashing BIOS's is to be avoided.

Unless space is a serious problem, I'd just as soon see the table
present as it would be on "standard" BIOS's.
                                Regards,
                                      - Jim

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 15:36 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.
> 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child