Garrett: Why ACPI?

Posted Nov 13, 2023 12:17 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Garrett: Why ACPI? by Hunterprocrasinates
Parent article: Garrett: Why ACPI?

Underlying this is firmware bugs, not ACPI or UEFI issues; if we replace ACPI or UEFI with something else, you'll just get a different set of buggy firmwares.

This is clear when you look at some of the crap that got put out there for OpenFirmware systems, and for platforms without a standard firmware like the Acorn platforms; they often could only boot one OS reliably, because the firmware authors "knew" that they would only run that OS.