We don't need ACPI for thermal monitors, what we need is a standard hardware interface.
A motherboard has standard PS2 ports. A motherboard has standard COM ports. A motherboard has standard USB ports. Another example could be the USB HID specification, I believe it is generic spec for human interface devices such as keyboard/mouse/joystick etc.
Why isn't there a generic hardware standard for motherboard thermal monitors? That is poor hardware design.
Soooo the best use case you came up with for ACPI is "thermal monitors", which at the end of the day could have been implemented as a standard hardware design similar to examples above.
ACPI is a over-engineeered garbage system implemented to work around lack of hardware standardisation.
Your support of ACPI is misguided, and I think Linus Torvalds would agree.
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We don't need ACPI for thermal monitors, what we need is a standard hardware interface.
A motherboard has standard PS2 ports.
A motherboard has standard COM ports.
A motherboard has standard USB ports.
Another example could be the USB HID specification, I believe it is generic spec for human interface devices such as keyboard/mouse/joystick etc.
Why isn't there a generic hardware standard for motherboard thermal monitors?
That is poor hardware design.
Soooo the best use case you came up with for ACPI is "thermal monitors", which at the end of the day could have been implemented as a standard hardware design similar to examples above.
ACPI is a over-engineeered garbage system implemented to work around lack of hardware standardisation.
Your support of ACPI is misguided, and I think Linus Torvalds would agree.