Simon Richter <geier@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de> writes:

> The interpreter is kernel code

But does it have to be? Couldn't you do this with a device driver that
talks to the bios, and do the rest in a userland daemon? You wouldn't
get any powermanagement without the daemon, but it would be a lot
easier to get something to work.

> The client libary, the X extension, ... 

X-extension for what? Management of the display hardware? Do you need
more than what the current interface (xset) allows for?

My confusion is probably because I've had a hard time figuring out
exactly what acpi is supposed to do, and what it isn't.

/Johan