[openbeos] Re: ACPI: I'm on a mission

> Howdy,
> 
> In case you're not watching the svn commit logs, I've started 
> continuing 
> NathanW's work with ACPI, to the point were I'm currently in the 
> process 
> of writing drivers for a few things. There's some architectural type 
> questions I'll need to ask (and we'll need to come to a consensus on) 
> when it comes to how to poll devices that don't support initiating 
> system events, and how to respond to those events when they are fired 
> from the OSPM (acpi bus_manager).
> 
> I'll warn everyone here, I'm pretty much a kernel noob, which was why 
> I 
> chose to start with drivers. Once I get the hang of this (and I 
> figure 
> it'll expose some bugs in the kernel) I figure I'll be fairly 
> accustomed 
> to the layout, design, and possibly be able to jump in and help in a 
> few 
> places. I like to get into things that are initially over my head. :-
> )
> 
> I'll get to those architectural questions in the near future. For 
> now, 
> I'm interested in obtaining a few ACPI namespace listings from people 
> who have systems that are running R5 with ACPI firmware. These 
> listings 

You might want to have a look at:

http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php

as well...
François.

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