Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 14th Jul 2007 19:38 UTC, submitted by mark
"Major Linux distributors have been shipping ACPI in Linux for several years, yet mis-perceptions about ACPI persist in the Linux community. This paper addresses the most common myths about ACPI in Linux [.pdf]." In addition, there are proposals to utilise kexec-based hibernation in Linux.
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2005-07-07
but definitely worth every second I spent on it.
I found it especially interesting in the part which covered how much of functionality usually thought to be ACPI related are actually not, e.g. "function-keys"
On a side note: I wish they would use a single column layout rather than the two columns one. Two columns are awkward to read on-screen, since it requires to scroll back to the page top when finish reading the first column.