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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Google Summer of code 2009
Date: Fri,  6 Mar 2009 16:05:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10903061605p3f96f3ej33d881810a0e8728@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c37e78ebbeb45c92adbc75af1bb182de@quanstro.net>

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> Acpi is also needed asap.
>
> what's the pressure point here?
>

The number of mainboards that have incorrect PIR, MP, tables that are
correct in ACPI. The fact that so many functions, for correct
operation, need ACPI.

It's a mess. ACPI sucks. But it's what we have to work with.

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-07  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-06 20:36 Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-03-06 23:59 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-07  0:05   ` ron minnich [this message]
2009-03-07  0:16     ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-07  4:41     ` lucio
2009-03-07  4:56       ` erik quanstrom
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-09 20:23 hugo rivera
2009-03-06 17:22 ` Dave Eckhardt
2009-03-06 17:31   ` hugo rivera
2009-03-06 19:04     ` Uriel
2009-03-07  2:56   ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-03-09  7:06     ` Dave Eckhardt
2009-03-07 19:13   ` maht
2009-03-06 20:23     ` Anthony Sorace

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