>Currently, after booting a system there is no way to tell what >hardware >is currently in the system. The current output from sysfs only >indicates what knowledge the kernel has of the system (ie, is >limited by >NR_CPUS, etc.). However, during ACPI initialization a lot of data is >output to the console about the precise number of CPUs, lapics, etc. Can you give an example of a person or program that can not access a specific piece of information that they need? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html