From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <6DA86118-AE52-45AE-912A-BD3E238ED2E5@lsub.org> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:05:38 -0800 Message-ID: <13426df10903061605p3f96f3ej33d881810a0e8728@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Google Summer of code 2009 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b51c29be-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM, erik quanstrom 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