Re: Userspace ACPI interpreter ( was RE: [ACPI] [RFC] dev_acpi: support for userspace access to acpi)

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:37:52AM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> One way to experiment with a user-mode ACPI interpreter would be to 
> continue to use the kernel-mode interpreter for boot up , and cut over 
> to the user-mode interpreter at /sbin/init.  The kernel-mode interpreter 
> could be sent the way of free_initmem() which is called just before 
> /sbin/init is invoked.

Is there a significant advantage to doing having a user-mode ACPI
interpreter?  The only advantage I can think of is that the ACPI
interpreter could now live in pageable memory.  Are there any others?

					- Ted
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