• notanapple@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    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.

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      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.