RFC: ACPI namespace

Richard Hughes ee21rh at surrey.ac.uk
Mon Jan 10 15:34:08 PST 2005


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:45:54 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:

>> Ick. ibm/toshiba/laptop specifics. Worry about it later :-)
> Cool, that's what we want to abstract so the interface is the
> same.

Sounds good.

> Sounds good - the existing code should be a starting point, we can merge
> that over to HEAD once I land my changes.

Sure. I'll start with ac_adaptor.

>> > Looks good, we can always add other properties here like 
>> > system.processor.vendor_id and so on..
> I think we'll figure out what to add later on.

Sure

> I think the direction X.org is taking is to at some point provide a
> moded
> (Mode Settings Daemon) that deals with the low-level hardware - we might
> hook into that. I'm not sure it's a problem we initially just do LCD
> brightness for the few select laptops that support it.

Sounds good, I'll research on this later.

> That would be cool - if you can do it against the doc/spec/hal-
> spec.xml.in in HEAD it would be great.

Will do, I'll XML-ise the spec now, well, maybe sleep and then do it, but
you get the idea...

Richard









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