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On IA64 platform, ACPI interpreter seems to be mandatory for those
stuff, but IA32 is not.  So, the ram disk is the generic solution 
for loading user space interpreter for boot. 

In two sentences: If you want to play with moving the interpreter
to user-space, please do so, and do it on ia64, so you have to
deal with the interesting problems.

And this whole thing is a gigantic tangent that is only distracting
attention from the real question at hand, namely, Alex's dev_acpi
patch, which exists today and enables some very interesting new
functionality.

  Yes, I agree Alex's dev_acpi is interesting, which could result in 
the removal of some acpi specific drive such as battery.c, button.c,
fan.c, thermal.c ....   So, I raised the question of userspace ACPI 
interpreter.  Intuitively, userspace is the right place for interpreter.

I do not think you want to put thermal/fan into userspace. If you boot
machine with init=/bin/bash, you should have working system. System
without fan fail... fast.

Plus you want to do suspend/resume.
								Pavel
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