From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 14 1:13:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.ics.muni.cz (aragorn.ics.muni.cz [147.251.4.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2023237B41C; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 01:13:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from dior.ics.muni.cz (dior.ics.muni.cz [147.251.6.10]) by aragorn.ics.muni.cz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA11893; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:13:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from kloboucek (root@localhost) (authenticated as hopet with LOGIN) by dior.ics.muni.cz (8.10.1/8.10.0.Beta12) with ESMTP id g0E9D0x28058; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:13:00 +0100 (MET) From: "Petr Holub" To: "M. Warner Losh" , Cc: , , Subject: RE: ACPI Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:12:09 +0100 Message-ID: <008901c19cdb$8b6138e0$2603fb93@kloboucek> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <20020113.095218.33915786.imp@village.org> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Backporting all of ACPI is likely to be difficult. It has tendrils > into a lot of different parts of the system. I'd love to see it back > ported as well, but I suspect that the time it will take to do it will > mean that it isn't MFC'd until after 5.0 is released. Well - what I was thinking about was to backport only some parts of it. I do understand that backporting all the features for all the drivers would mean tremendous effort. But backporting only the very basic features like battery reporting shouldn't be so difficult. And this is the most important feature I miss. Petr ================================================================ Petr Holub CESNET z.s.p.o. Supercomputing Center Brno Zikova 2 Institute of Compt. Science 10200 Praha, CZ Masaryk University Czech Republic Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno, CZ e-mail: Petr.Holub@cesnet.cz phone: +420-5-41512278 e-mail: hopet@ics.muni.cz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message