Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:14:44 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: mike@smith.net.au, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experimental ACPI driver. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909271013540.322-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199909270323.MAA17896@tasogare.imasy.or.jp>
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On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > 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. I would very much appreciate talking to Mr. Watanebe at FreeBSDCon and working on the design for a decent ACPI implementation. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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