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LinuxCon: x86 platform driversLinuxCon: x86 platform driversPosted Aug 24, 2011 23:08 UTC (Wed) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)Parent article: LinuxCon: x86 platform drivers
So is this a case of the PC platform becoming more like the ARM platform - i.e. every board is subtly different in inconsistent ways?
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LinuxCon: x86 platform drivers Posted Aug 24, 2011 23:33 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
All the standard PC functionality is still pretty consistent between machines, but in other areas it's pretty platform dependent, yes. The main difference between this and the ARM world is that the firmware usually provides an ACPI representation of the device, meaning you can build a generic kernel.
LinuxCon: x86 platform drivers Posted Aug 25, 2011 3:03 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]
Actually in the world of laptops.. this is a sign of moving away from the ARM model. Back in the scary days of 1997-2001, you could order a laptop from the same manufacturer once a month and never get the same hardware twice. Each one would have slightly different takes on stuff and you would have to guess at where they had stuck some part of the hardware this time. I am not a kernel developer but from a tech support side.. this is heaven with ACPI.
LinuxCon: x86 platform drivers Posted Aug 26, 2011 6:04 UTC (Fri) by agrover (subscriber, #55381) [Link]
Wow, "heaven" and "ACPI" used in the same sentence. *boggle*
LinuxCon: x86 platform drivers Posted Aug 27, 2011 0:35 UTC (Sat) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]
It's the second worst platform interface ever created. Everything else is tied for first. :)
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