Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Devon H. O'Dell<devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/8 Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Devon H. O'Dell<devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I don't think so. We already have IPv6 support and it's not that bad.
>>> Having more drivers and supported commodity architectures would be a
>>> good thing. I'd love to do this, but I don't think anybody's going to
>>> match my salary to port drivers, do ACPI, add amd64 support for
>>> workstations, etc.
>>
>> ACPI will never, ever, ever happen, so people better get over it (and
>> if anyone is naive enough to waste their time trying, it will end up
>> as a useless atrocious mess that wont boot even in a 100th of the
>> systems out there, much less suspend or do anything useful).
>
> ACPI support doesn't need to suspend or do thermal zones. It just
> needs to be able to read the ADT and get MP / interrupt routing table
> information. This is doable. Have you ever read any of the ACPI spec?
> I have.

The spec doesn't matter much, given that most BIOS out there totally ignore it.

>> As for amd64, it is already done, we are just not worthy to have access to it.
>
> Without this getting into a holy war, what Geoff told me was that the
> amd64 work was for headless CPU servers, which is only mildly useful
> to me anyway.

If it was released perhaps somebody would add the missing drivers, who knows...

As things stand, we will never know.

uriel