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User-land Interface

There are already some user-land interfaces in the ACPI driver. The interface is provided in two ways: /dev/acpi ioctl's and hw.acpi sysctls. Currently provided interfaces are:

There is a piece missing relating to the ACPI event notification system. We plan to use kqueue [7] to implement the event notification system.



Takanori Watanabe 2002-04-13