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@@ -180,24 +180,11 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | |||
180 | 180 | ||
181 | --------------------------- | 181 | --------------------------- |
182 | 182 | ||
183 | What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace | ||
184 | When: 2.6.21 | ||
185 | Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for | ||
186 | the BIOS. The device names are completely arbitrary | ||
187 | and have no place being exposed to user-space. | ||
188 | |||
189 | For those interested in the BIOS ACPI namespace, | ||
190 | the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump | ||
191 | and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here: | ||
192 | http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils | ||
193 | Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | ||
194 | |||
195 | --------------------------- | ||
196 | |||
197 | What: ACPI procfs interface | 183 | What: ACPI procfs interface |
198 | When: July 2007 | 184 | When: July 2008 |
199 | Why: After ACPI sysfs conversion, ACPI attributes will be duplicated | 185 | Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008. |
200 | in sysfs and the ACPI procfs interface should be removed. | 186 | ACPI procfs interface will be removed in July 2008 so that |
187 | there is enough time for the user space to catch up. | ||
201 | Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> | 188 | Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> |
202 | 189 | ||
203 | --------------------------- | 190 | --------------------------- |