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[Fredrik Modéen <fredrik@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> 1. ACPI do this work on other platform like Zeta or does it only work
>> for
>> than Haiku?
>
> It should works on BeOS, Zeta and Haiku. It comes as a bus manager kernel
> module
> (acpi), which depends on one generic kernel module (dpc), plus IIRC three
> kernel
> drivers called acpi_button, acpi_thermal and acpi_ns_dump
>
>> 2. ACPI how do I build that? do I need to make some sort of package?
>
> Unfortunatly, these no pseudo-target to build all ACPI related stuffs.
> Yet.
>
> The actual targets to build are:
> acpi
> dpc
> acpi_button
> acpi_thermal
> acpi_ns_dump
>
> When built, install them here:
>
> ~/config/add-ons/kernel/bus_managers/acpi
> ~/config/add-ons/kernel/generic/dpc
> ~/config/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin/acpi_button
> ~/config/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/power/acpi_button relatively symlinked
> to
> previous binary.
> ~/config/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin/acpi_thermal
> ~/config/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/power/acpi_thermal relatively
> symlinked to
> previous binary.
> ~/config/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin/acpi_ns_dump
> ~/config/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/power/acpi_ns_dump relatively
> symlinked to
> previous binary.
>
> Then, open a Terminal and type this:
>
> $ cat /dev/power/namespace
>
> If you're lucky, it wont crash ;-) but dump your system ACPI namespace.
> In such case, stress your luck and type:
No luck here :( so how does I dump the output from kernel dubug land
without a serial connection? I have never hade any luck with serial
debugging.

>
> $ cat /dev/power/thermal/*
>
>
>
> Last but not least, you may find Bryan Varner blog entries about his work
> on
> Haiku's ACPI quite interesting or even funny:
>
> http://bryan.varnernet.com/index.php?s=ACPI&paged=1
>
> It started it out from there:
> http://bryan.varnernet.com/2006/02/24/haiku-acpi-could-use-your-assistance/
>
> ... as was reported by HaikuNews:
> http://haikunews.org/index.php?id=1165
>
> - Philippe
>
>


-- 
MVH
Fredrik Modéen