The acpi driver provides support for the Intel/Microsoft/Compaq/Toshiba ACPI standard. This support includes platform hardware discovery (super- seding the PnP and PCI BIOS), as well as power management (superseding APM) and other features. ACPI core support is provided by the ACPI CA reference implementation from Intel.
| Task | Description | Responsible | Last updated | Priority | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giant-free locking | Remove dependency on Giant | &a.njl; | April 14, 2004 | High | &status.wip; | code halfway done, battery subsys needs reworking before locking. |
| newbus attachments for cpu | Get cpu devices under newbus so drivers like cpufreq can probe/attach | &a.njl; | April 14, 2004 | High | &status.wip; | Deal with unexpected conflicts on non-x86 platforms |
| Task | Responsible | Last updated | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| amd64 | freebsd-acpi@ | April 14, 2004 | &status.wip; | |
| i386 | freebsd-acpi@ | April 14, 2004 | &status.wip; | |
| ia64 | freebsd-acpi@ | April 14, 2004 | &status.wip; |