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Re:Is Arm ready for server dominance? by Aloha on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:54PM (#21716376)
How closely coupled is ACPI to x86?
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Re:Is Arm ready for server dominance? by bonzini on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:56AM (#21720182)
It used to be quite coupled to x86 hardware, but nowadays they have a profile that replaces a bunch of fixed hardware (such as the ACPI embedded controller) with an ACPI description of GPIO pins, I2C buses etc.
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Re:Is Arm ready for server dominance? by the_why_of_y on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:23PM (#21717318)
ACPI was a required feature of Itanium systems, claims slide 5 of this Intel presentation from 2000:

https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_2.0_Supp...

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Re:Is Arm ready for server dominance? by qubex on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:28PM (#21716765)
It isn’t.
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