Hi!
Is there a good guide about ACPI ?
What is it, and can it be used by DeviceDrivers authors ?
Thanks
Have you read the ACPI spec: http://www.acpi.info/DOWNLOADS/ACPIspec40.pdf
That’s pretty much everything you need to know.
mm
Just looking at that 727 page specification appreciate Jake and his
successors and associates even more. Such a collection of detailed minutia
that requires so much effort to fully understand it enough to implement in
the hal and acpi drivers. I am sure it is not everything you need to know
to build an OS that handles these very complex systems. It is almost like
the days of CP/M where the BIOS was all in code that was loaded during
boot - they just hide it in a flash and/or ROM chip nowadays.
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> Have you read the ACPI spec: http://www.acpi.info/DOWNLOADS/ACPIspec40.pdf
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> That’s pretty much everything you need to know.
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> mm
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> Is there a good guide about ACPI ?
If by “good guide” you mean “a doc/book/etc that is easy to understand”, then I’ve got to disappoint you…
It is understandable that the most authoritative reference on ACPI in existence is ACPI Specification, but this is not the easiest read one would imagine…
Anton Bassov