On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:42:37AM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:39:53PM -0600, paul.devriendt@amd.com wrote:
>  > >> Dave had a good idea of a minimal ACPI parser for trying to retrieve the
>  > >> table of p-states from an ACPI BIOS without needing the full AML interpreter.
>  > >> I will see if I can get that to work in powernow-k8-acpi 
>  > >  
>  > > If done properly, that parsing code could be shared by the K7 
>  > > driver too.
>  > 
>  > Agreed. Function in a header file? Don't want the drivers attempting to
>  > call each other at runtime.
> 
> Works for me, or shove it out into its own .c file, and have both drivers link against it.

Guys, do you remember my acpi-perflib?[1] Currently, I'm rewriting it so that
it isn't so invasive and can be merged more easily during 2.x.[2] It's exactly
what you want as base for powernow-k7-acpi and powernow-k8-acpi driver.

However, as it relies on CONFIG_ACPI, an acpi-perflib-no-acpi module which
exports the same functions, but includes a minimal parser could be added.
But let's do the easy part (CONFIG_ACPI) first.

[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=acpi4linux&m=106547064228222&w=2
[patches are taken down from the website, though...]

[2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=acpi4linux&m=107398568612489&w=2 is a
first step, another one will be sent out later today.

	Dominik