OS2.org News (www.OS2.org): 12/07/2008

ACPI 3.10 is available (from Eugene Gorbunoff : eugenegorbunoff@mail.ruDESPAM)

A) Fresh news: We get more reports that eComStation works fine on 8 cores. B) Why to install ACPI for eComStation? You should install ACPI for eComStation to: Common (Notebooks, servers, barebones): * to initialize PC (the devices are not initialized on boot without ACPI), * to use multi-core CPU (Core Duo, AMD X2). Especially, if you want run computer in APIC mode, * device drivers for eComStation depend on ACPI, * ACPI provides information about the computer to drivers, applications and system information utilities. Notebook, barebone: * to manage power management (suspend/resume/poweroff) * to reduce power consumption For developer: * The main purpose of the driver is to provide ACPI interface to applied developers. C) Bug-tracker The rules changed: ACPI tracker -- http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/report/1 -> [New ticket] Register to Login -- http://www.netlabs.org/site/member/ don\'t use short name&password, save your password D) How to contribute to ACPI project? http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=contribute [1] -> URL: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/report/1 [2] -> URL: http://www.netlabs.org/site/member/ [3] -> URL: http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=contribute

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