Comment by pantalaimon

11 hours ago

There was a recent proposal to make use of ACPI on ARM

https://www.phoronix.com/news/DT-ACPI-Hybrid-Mode-Linux

This is actually misinformed, the discussion on the mailing list made it clear: there is NO full ACPI on these Windows ARM devices; they only use ACPI marginally and still require and provide device tree.

Phoronix should have revised that article, it's completely misleading.

One option would be to implement the custom non-standard Qualcomm drivers that technically it needs to implement anyway, but with support for the UEFI/ACPI interface.

On Windows, Qualcomm ships custom drivers that override normal ACPI platform logic in various places, IIRC