From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 26 20:23:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from tasogare.imasy.or.jp (tasogare.imasy.or.jp [202.227.24.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B00DB14F39 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:23:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (isdn3.imasy.or.jp [202.227.24.195]) by tasogare.imasy.or.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W-tasogare/smtpfeed 1.01) with ESMTP id MAA17896; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:23:01 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <199909270323.MAA17896@tasogare.imasy.or.jp> To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experimental ACPI driver. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:06:55 -0700" <199909261906.MAA13438@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199909261906.MAA13438@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on Emacs 19.34 / Mule 2.3 (SUETSUMUHANA) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:25:44 +0900 From: Mitsuru IWASAKI X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 38 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Mike. # I'm very happy because of your reply :) > > > We wrote experimental ACPI driver for 4.0-CURRENT. > > > > This was just one week work so its functionallity is very very poor :-) > > but I think it is good idea to start with this for developping ACPI > > driver for FreeBSD because it is enough small to understand it. > > I'm not sure this is the right way to go about it, although I haven't > looked at your code yet. APCI is a big animal, and I think it's going > to take a proper design to get it right. Indeed. Also I think that this project cannot be achieved easily by only one/two person's efforts. I believe having this kind of prototype makes our discussion easier. We are going to prepare the materials for our further discussion. > The key components would appear to be a full AML parser, an object > manager to manage the ACPI namespace, and an AML interpreter to run the > AML methods. Yes, Yes. > > If someone already started wriring ACPI devive driver, please let us > > know. We'd like to merge them and would be happy in collaboration > > with you. > > Both Doug Rabson and myself have been tinkering with this, and there's > someone that's been looking at an AML parser/interpreter in the last > couple of weeks. At this point in time, the parser and object manager > are the most vital components. Now we got new friends :) Mr. Watanabe is going FreeBSDCon (unfortunately I cannot), you can discuss this matter with him. I think the time has come to start! Thank you very much. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message