[haiku-gsoc] Re: final report of cpuidle gsoc project

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-gsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:07:10 +0200

On 2012-08-19 at 19:01:49 [+0200], Yongcong Du <ycdu.vmcore@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Sorry for being silent for about two weeks, but I watched maillist and was
> still busy with coding and debugging. The reason I'm seen on irc is that
> the acpi is so complex that I must read ACPI spec and NetBSD, FreeBSD and
> Linux source code to verify. Since I can't test acpi cstate related
> function with qemu or something else, I must modify code then rebuild and
> reboot every time. It's too frustrating..

If you have a second computer you can use for testing, booting it via PXE 
might make your life easier. You'd still have to reboot the test machine 
for every test, but you could at least keep you development environment 
running.

CU, Ingo

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