rajeshprabhu72721 writes: > We are trying to build ACPI for PPC e300 core . The problem is we Why? What problem do you think that will solve? > donot have a BIOS running to supply the System Descriptor Tables to > ACPI during boot. So ACPI gets disabled during boot. Are the system > desc tables must for the ACPI to run? Or is there a method where we > can avoid these tables and make ACPI work directly. Without BIOS how > do we make ACPI up and running? ACPI is a bad idea (see Linus Torvalds' rants about ACPI in the linux-kernel mailing list archives for the reasons). Fortunately no PowerPC platform has tried to implement it. If nothing else, the endianness difference would make it impracticable. Paul.
