From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920802252116p6917798ewdc0812cf0dbcfb0a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:16:21 +0100 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 on Intel Pentiul D Dualcore (D94RPLrn) In-Reply-To: <58ab2648f67247512f8b852ad47902ae@quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <58ab2648f67247512f8b852ad47902ae@quanstro.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 619ecc0c-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 4. teach plan 9 to parse the acpi irq tables. > > cheer up! the acpi documentation is less than two feet > thick. Don't worry, I don't think the thickness of the documentation will be an issue, most mb manufacturers ignore it and simply test that the junk they build works (ie., boots) with NT's broken ACPI implementation... This makes adding ACPI support to your favorite OS most fun, fun, fun. uriel