On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote:
> Hi, Mike.
> # I'm very happy because of your reply :)
>
> > > > We wrote experimental ACPI driver for 4.0-CURRENT.
> > >
> > > This was just one week work so its functionallity is very very poor :-)
> > > but I think it is good idea to start with this for developping ACPI
> > > driver for FreeBSD because it is enough small to understand it.
> >
> > I'm not sure this is the right way to go about it, although I haven't
> > looked at your code yet. APCI is a big animal, and I think it's going
> > to take a proper design to get it right.
>
> Indeed. Also I think that this project cannot be achieved easily by
> only one/two person's efforts. I believe having this kind of prototype
> makes our discussion easier. We are going to prepare the materials
> for our further discussion.
>
> > The key components would appear to be a full AML parser, an object
> > manager to manage the ACPI namespace, and an AML interpreter to run the
> > AML methods.
>
> Yes, Yes.
>
> > > If someone already started wriring ACPI devive driver, please let us
> > > know. We'd like to merge them and would be happy in collaboration
> > > with you.
> >
> > Both Doug Rabson and myself have been tinkering with this, and there's
> > someone that's been looking at an AML parser/interpreter in the last
> > couple of weeks. At this point in time, the parser and object manager
> > are the most vital components.
>
> Now we got new friends :) Mr. Watanabe is going FreeBSDCon
> (unfortunately I cannot), you can discuss this matter with him.
> I think the time has come to start!
>
> Thank you very much.
I would very much appreciate talking to Mr. Watanebe at FreeBSDCon and
working on the design for a decent ACPI implementation.
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