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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Increasingly, it seems that it will not be possible to use modern hardware > without ACPI. So, in a sense, the point will be moot. Certainly it is > only a good thing that Linux has a high-quality ACPI implementation in the > works, so that users will have the option to use it. I expect that most > will happily run it and look no further. > > But that doesn't change the fact that a lot of people do not like the ACPI > standard. There is some selling yet to be done if that dislike is to be > overcome. Well, let's hope that when x86-64 comes out, it will go with saner chipsets. Pity that it hadn't happened years ago - world without Itanic would certainly be a nicer place... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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