[OLPC-devel] Why ACPI DSDT tables?

[Jim Gettys]

WindowsCE won't have great difficulty living without: it is used to
running on non-PC hardware.

Full up Windows XP won't fit on our system.  I suppose someone might
want to run Windows 98 or 2K, in theory, and want the tables.  I have no
idea if those systems depend on the BIOS for it, but suspect they do.

I was mostly wondering about the *BSD folks, as a community gesture.
Then again, I don't know what state they are in when it comes to power
management in general.
                                Regards,
                                      - Jim


On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 16:45 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 17:41 +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > Frankly, for booting Windows this is probably as good as not providing
> > a DSDT at all, as the Microsoft OSes don't provide a decent way of
> > attaching the DSDT to their initrd ;)=
> 
> Neither do they provide a decent of running from the onboard NAND flash.
> 
> Should we provide an INT 13h BIOS call which does some kind of block
> device emulation instead of using JFFS2?
> 
> I think not. If someone wants Windows running properly on it, they have
> to do some development work _anyway_.
> 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child