On 28 February 2014 02:05, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
> > Am 28.02.2014 um 03:56 schrieb Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >> Replace Windows by "Linux with custom drivers" and you're in the same
> >> situation even when you neglect Windows. Reality will be that we will
> >> have fdt and acpi based systems.

> > We will however want to boot all sorts of guests in a standardized
> > virtual environment:

> > * 32 bit Linux (since some distros don't support biarch or multiarch
> >  on arm64) for running applications that are either binary-only
> >  or not 64-bit safe.
> > * 32-bit Android
> > * big-endian Linux for running applications that are not endian-clean
> >  (typically network stuff ported from powerpc or mipseb.
> > * OS/v guests
> > * NOMMU Linux
> > * BSD based OSs
> > * QNX
> > * random other RTOSs

*snip*
 
> You're forgetting a few pretty important cases here:
>
> * Enterprise grade Linux distribution that only supports ACPI
> * Maybe WinRT if we can convince MS to use it
> * Non-Linux with x86/ia64 heritage and thus ACPI support

I think we need limit the scope of the spec a bit here.