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

["Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>]

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.
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> 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.

> 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.

> uriel
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