There’s nothing wrong with ACPI - in fact it’s what’s going to enable ARM in the server space. Without something like ACPI, you need customized kernels and othe

There’s nothing wrong with ACPI - in fact it’s what’s going to enable ARM in the server space. Without something like ACPI, you need customized kernels and other crap to control system devices. ACPI is actually quite nice. And it replaced something (APM) that really was legacy cruft (dropping into real mode for power management?!! Ugh!) EFI doesn’t seem that bad either. Maybe something like uboot would suit you better? But the reason we have those nice graphical bios utilities now is because of EFI.