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No the problem is that ACPI is a poor piece of design to abstract what is effectively a stinking great turd of an architecture.

You just simply don't get these problems on non-x86 systems. (I speak from experience with MIPS, ARM and SPARC btw).

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On non-x86 you get different problems, such as the kernel needing special-case initialization code for every phone model ever made.

That's a fair point. The main problem with that is that most vendors want platform lock in so they implement their own verified loaders (if it's for a phone).

If we had OpenBoot on ARM, things would rock.

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