On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 07:42:59PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > On 03/28/2012 07:27 PM, Andy Grover wrote: > >Wait, I thought there was some kind of "flattened device tree" or > >something that the ARM folks thought would let them avoid ACPI. Did that > >not pan out? Maybe MS put the kibosh on it? > > In the long run you're likely to see FDT for mobile devices and UEFI > for servers. Jon's prognostications are regarding the long view > (years). In the short term you're going to be seeing UEFI/ACPI for any hardware that's intended to run Windows, so I suspect that's going to spread fairly quickly unless vendors want to produce multiple firmware implementations for otherwise similar hardware. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
