:Kernel Space: Progress on ACPI and Power Management
Kernel Space: Progress on ACPI and Power Management Jul 12, 2007, 09 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (9593 reads) (Other stories by Jonathan Corbet)
"Len Brown can only be a glutton for punishment; he is, after all, the maintainer of the Linux ACPI subsystem. That is a difficult position to be in: ACPI involves getting into the BIOS layer, an area of system software which is not always known for careful, high-quality work. Supporting ACPI is a complex task which, among other things, requires the embedding of a specialized interpreter within the kernel, a hard sell at best. Even with that background in mind, one must wonder just how much masochism is required to lead one to deliver three separate talks at the 2007 Ottawa Linux Symposium. That is just what Len did, however; the end result was a good view into several aspects of the power management problem..."
