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No the problem is that ACPI is a poor piece of design to abstract what is effectively a stinking great turd of an architecture. You just simply don't get these
by chrisjsmith 15y ago
No the problem is that ACPI is a poor piece of design to abstract what is effectively a stinking great turd of an architecture.
You just simply don't get these problems on non-x86 systems. (I speak from experience with MIPS, ARM and SPARC btw).
- wmf 15y agoOn non-x86 you get different problems, such as the kernel needing special-case initialization code for every phone model ever made.
- chrisjsmith 15y agoThat's a fair point. The main problem with that is that most vendors want platform lock in so they implement their own verified loaders (if it's for a phone). If we had OpenBoot on ARM, things would rock.