On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:01:39AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> >  > >> 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.
> 
> Would acpi parsing be usefull for non-amd systems, too?

The acpi "performance library", whether it uses the CONFIG_ACPI parser or
some small independent parser, is (at least) also useful for

- ACPI 2.0 P-States using I/O-port access [current
  arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi.c driver -- it can be cleaned up by
  that. In fact, I'm currently working on it.]

- speedstep-centrino driver [can use ACPI info instead of built-in tables]
  [sample patch based on earlier acpi-perflib patch is in the cpufreq and
   acpi-devel archives]

	Dominik