Comment by mjg59
1 year ago
Yes, the world would be better with better documentation. But that doesn't solve the "How do I ship a new platform that works with existing operating systems" problem. ACPI provides an abstraction that allows some amount of divergent platform behaviour while retaining compatibility with existing operating systems. Even if all vendors released docs (which isn't terribly realistic), we'd still end up having to write new drivers for them, getting those merged upstream, and then deal with the lag between that and Linux distributions shipping them to end users.
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