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LinuxCon: x86 platform driversLinuxCon: x86 platform driversPosted Aug 25, 2011 3:03 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)In reply to: LinuxCon: x86 platform drivers by neilbrown Parent article: LinuxCon: x86 platform drivers
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.
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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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