[OLPC-devel] Re: Why ACPI DSDT tables?

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 16:11 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The part where firmware is almost always useful is to report board
> specific details so we don't need board specific drivers.  Anything
> that is board specific can't be reused (except as an example).  If
> something can't be reused it has a questionable amount of purpose in
> the kernel.  But so far that doesn't seem to be where the conversation
> is about. 

None of the DCON work can be reused either -- should we write all its
support in ASL just so that it doesn't go into the kernel?

Seriously, there's _plenty_ of board-specific stuff in the Linux kernel;
just not a huge amount of it in the i386 architecture. 

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dwmw2