i've been adapting cinap's work getting aml talking to the gas structures to nix. to see what the aml is up to, i've been tracing the accesses. i found this especially amusing:
aml: writeioport: port 80 len 1 aa aml: readioport: port 80 len 1 aa as in, write 0xaa (acpi mode, using the ioapic) to the post code port. ;-) good grief! - erik