[OLPC-devel] Why ACPI DSDT tables?

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 09:23 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> I think this makes sense. The only reason to put dsdt into the bios 
> image is so the bios can run it. LinuxBIOS is not going to run it. So 
> dsdt can be a file and if the user wants the kernel-level AML running, 
> then user can do that.
> 
> If we can get to a reasonable accomodation for acpi, that does not 
> require DSDT in the bios, that would be a good thing. ACPI is a really 
> poorly designed and thought-out standard.

Yeah. As long as the shipped BIOS can boot a user-provided ELF file
instead of _only_ our own Linux kernel, and as long as all the hardware
documentation is freely available to the public, I think that's all we
need to do.

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dwmw2