Re: HEAD'S UP on ACPI work

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 21, 2004, at 2:10 AM, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     The acpica5 code will build, but the module will NOT yet load.  I 
> have
>     a bunch more work to do before the module will work properly.  I 
> need
>     to separate the APIC code from the SMP code so APIC support can be
>     built without SMP support, I need to make SMP builds work on UP
>     machines rather then panic, and I need to deal with the ACPICA 
> module's
>     interactions with the APIC.  I probably also have to bring in a 
> bit more
>     of the FreeBSD-5 PCI bus code.

Your talking about adding in the code to populate the MPTable via ACPI
I take it ?

What exactlly are the plans for this then since it opens up a lot of 
options ?

-DR