Hi Shannon,
On 2015年02月27日 19:22, Shannon Zhao wrote:
On 2015/2/25 16:40, Hanjun Guo wrote:
+Not yet implemented are:
- -- Section 10: power source and power meter devices
- -- Section 11: thermal management
- -- Section 12: embedded controllers interface
- -- Section 13: SMBus interfaces
- -- Section 17: NUMA support (prototypes have been submitted for
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+ACPI is also important because hardware and OS vendors have already worked +out how to use it to support the general purpose ecosystem. The infrastructure +is in place, the bindings are in place, and the process is in place. DT does +exactly what we need it to when working with vertically integrated devices, +but we don’t have good processes for supporting what the server vendors need. +We could potentially get there with DT, but doing so doesn’t buy us anything. +ACPI already does what the hardware vendors need, Microsoft won’t collaborate +with us on DT, and the hardware vendors would still need to provide two +completely separate firmware interface; one for Linux and one for Windows.
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Thanks a lot for the pointer, I will update it :)
Regards Hanjun