Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:42:10 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards Message-ID: <XFMail.20030117134210.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3E270673.EDF92282@mindspring.com>
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On 16-Jan-2003 Terry Lambert wrote: > Nate Lawson wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: >> > Repeat: These machines work fine under Windows; the problem >> > is not the BIOS, it's the OS's ASL interpreter. >> >> There's another wrinkle in that the interpreter is supplied by Intel. >> Some difficulties were _introduced_ by them, notably the strict var scope >> checking. > > That's a good idea. > > For them. > > For FreeBSD, it means eating the pain, so that Intel gets what > it wants: technical people bitching at vendors to conform to > the standard, while not impacting the vast majority of Windows > and other non-technical customers. > > For Intel, this is a win-win. > > For FreeBSD, unless Windows adopts the same code (which it will > not do, since doing so will limit their market, just as using > the code is currently limiting FreeBSD's market), it's a lose-lose. Are you offering to write a new ACPI parser? If not, then put up or shut up. It's not exactly a trivial task. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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