Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:28 -0400 (EDT) | From | Len Brown <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 2.6.32] Simple Firmware Interface (SFI): initial support |
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On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> There seems to be a huge amount of overlap between SFI and ACPI. > Couldn't this have simply taken the form of some additional ACPI tables > and a decoupling of ACPI enumeration from runtime AML interpretation? > How final is this spec?
> I realise that we're pretty much constrained to implementing this if > hardware actually ships with it, but it seems to be an additional > firmware interface with no real benefit - as far as I can tell it's not > possible for a platform to meaningfully implement both ACPI and SFI > without duplicating information?
Please let me know if your questions are not thoroughly answered here: http://simplefirmware.org/faq
thanks, -Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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