I guess in theory one could parse the FADT from user-space, as it is already exported in /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/ but this is certainly more user-friendly -- say to a shell script etc. applied. thanks, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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