Messages in this thread | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] ACPI: Idle Processor PM Improvements | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:13:20 -0600 |
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On Wednesday 30 August 2006 13:43, Matthew Garrett wrote: > That would be helpful. For the One Laptop Per Child project (or whatever > it's called today), it would be advantageous to run without acpi.
Out of curiosity, what is the motivation for running without acpi? It costs a lot to diverge from the mainstream in areas like that, so there must be a big payoff. But maybe if OLPC depends on acpi being smarter about power or code size or whatever, those improvements could be made and everybody would benefit. - 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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