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How closely coupled is ACPI to x86?
by Aloha 7y ago
How closely coupled is ACPI to x86?
- qubex 7y agoIt isn’t.
- the_why_of_y 7y agoACPI was a required feature of Itanium systems, claims slide 5 of this Intel presentation from 2000: https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_2.0_Support_for_IA-64_Systems.pdf https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_2.0_Supp...
- bonzini 7y agoIt used to be quite coupled to x86 hardware, but nowadays they have a profile that replaces a bunch of fixed hardware (such as the ACPI embedded controller) with an ACPI description of GPIO pins, I2C buses etc.