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From: Mathieu Prevot <bsdhack@club-internet.fr>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 20:30:30 +0100
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Subject: Re: ACPI and 3.0 specification
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> acpi 3.0 adds very little useful stuff unless you're interested in  
> large NUMA machines.  We'd be better off implementing more support  
> for those systems in the main kernel and then acpi, not the other  
> way around.
>
> -- 
> Nate

Thanks for these pieces of information. Do you implement first in the  
kernel for performance only ? It seems to be the hard way.
Regards

MP