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Subject: Re: ACPI and 3.0 specification
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            Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes:
: 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.

PCIE and SATA sounds useful, and Ambient Light Sensor and User
Presense device sounds both cool and ominous :-)  I agree with you
about numa.

Warner