Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070504 06:38]: > > > Mitch wrote a fast path resume from RAM for the OLPC Geode hardware. > > > Once you've done that, you find that you've done just about everything > > > to initialize the hardware in the first place; so that code is now > > > used both at boot time and at suspend from RAM time. > > > > I suppose this was done by relying on the ACPI tables? > > No, no ACPI involved.
Not even the init tables ACPI depends on? > ACPI is far too slow and broken to do the task. > It's a mixture between the Open Firmware device tree and FCode. > Reinvented poorly. You mean ACPI was reinvented poorly? > > And, wouldn't it make sense for LinuxBIOS and OFW to join forces? > > Definitely. This is already happening - There is a GSoC project (going > to be done by Jens Freimann) to get a better integration between OFW and > LB done. I was more thinking of merging the projects; or is there an advantage of keeping them separate? Thanks! -- Al -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
