On 16-Jan-2003 Terry Lambert wrote: > Nate Lawson wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: >> > Repeat: These machines work fine under Windows; the problem >> > is not the BIOS, it's the OS's ASL interpreter. >> >> There's another wrinkle in that the interpreter is supplied by Intel. >> Some difficulties were _introduced_ by them, notably the strict var scope >> checking. > > That's a good idea. > > For them. > > For FreeBSD, it means eating the pain, so that Intel gets what > it wants: technical people bitching at vendors to conform to > the standard, while not impacting the vast majority of Windows > and other non-technical customers. > > For Intel, this is a win-win. > > For FreeBSD, unless Windows adopts the same code (which it will > not do, since doing so will limit their market, just as using > the code is currently limiting FreeBSD's market), it's a lose-lose.
Are you offering to write a new ACPI parser? If not, then put up or shut up. It's not exactly a trivial task. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
