On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Uriel<urie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Devon H. O'Dell<devon.od...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2009/7/8 Uriel <urie...@gmail.com>: >>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Devon H. O'Dell<devon.od...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> I don't think so. We already have IPv6 support and it's not that bad. >>>> Having more drivers and supported commodity architectures would be a >>>> good thing. I'd love to do this, but I don't think anybody's going to >>>> match my salary to port drivers, do ACPI, add amd64 support for >>>> workstations, etc. >>> >>> ACPI will never, ever, ever happen, so people better get over it (and >>> if anyone is naive enough to waste their time trying, it will end up >>> as a useless atrocious mess that wont boot even in a 100th of the >>> systems out there, much less suspend or do anything useful). >> >> ACPI support doesn't need to suspend or do thermal zones. It just >> needs to be able to read the ADT and get MP / interrupt routing table >> information. This is doable. Have you ever read any of the ACPI spec? >> I have. > > The spec doesn't matter much, given that most BIOS out there totally ignore > it. > >>> As for amd64, it is already done, we are just not worthy to have access to >>> it. >> >> Without this getting into a holy war, what Geoff told me was that the >> amd64 work was for headless CPU servers, which is only mildly useful >> to me anyway. > > If it was released perhaps somebody would add the missing drivers, who > knows... > > As things stand, we will never know. > > uriel
Yeah, it's too bad nobody else on this planet could conceivably ever write a port. Since you're so hot on the idea, why not port it yourself? I expect to see code immediately, by the way, finished or not, and you better be around to answer my questions. Or are you too busy perfecting your /sys/doc mirror and bitching on irc? John -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
