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What's up with Linux on Snapdragons? (thelibre.news)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think x86 is basically the only platform that's used ACPI

ARM and x86. From wikipedia:

Revision 5.0 of the ACPI specification was released in December 2011,[15] which added the ARM architecture support.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

2011? That's basically last week right?

Support for it (and UEFI ) came with their push into servers, they were forced to make the platform a lot less special and more general purpose like x86 traditionally has been.

End user facing hardware is a different matter though, like I know you can boot the Raspberry Pi via UEFI/ACPI (It builds the ACPI tables in the bootloader), but then Apple doesn't use it at all for their ARM hardware and it uses something closer to a modern OpenFirmware.