On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 19:09 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> Kasper Sandberg wrote:
> > A somewhat related question is.. How come linux does not(as i understand
> > it) support talking to the chipsets to do these things? wouldnt this
> > also give other benefits, such as being able to more precisely control
> > interrupts and stuff?
> 
> Sure.  Plus, it's virtually guaranteed to crash or corrupt your system 
> if you try to do anything which requires ACPI or SMM.
Ah, i just thought that a specific other OS actually did this (which,
now that you mention this, makes a whole lot of sense :-))
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> 	-hpa
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