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Ever since my misadventures into ACPI-land with my old laptop I’ve been quite curious to better understand how it’s all implemented under Linux. I skimmed the ACPI spec and that may have given me some insight on how to hack together a temporary fix to the problem I had then, but it doesn’t really count as real understanding.

Since I don’t currently have the necessary time, I wrote it off as just another one of my many dead-end interests, but I nevertheless remained subscribed to the linux-acpi mailing list and the curiosity was still there, so it was a nice surprise to read a couple of posts by Mathew Garret on the subject, elucidating some bits of technicality, and I just decided to show some appreciation by posting about it! (I figure there’s not enough appreciation out there, generally speaking…)

Who knows, maybe someday I’ll get my act together and be able to contribute some code?