The NetBSD Foundation is pleased to announce a contract with Jared McNeill (jmcneill@NetBSD.org) to port the ACPI subsystem to the ARM64 platform, enabling generic kernels to just work on ARM64 SBBA (Server Base Boot Requirements) and SBSA (Server Base System Architecture) standard systems. The goals of the project are: - extend efiboot to deal with handoff between FDT and ACPI, and add an ACPI FDT driver - add generic "ACPI" platform support to ARM64 - port ACPI code, both MD and ACPICA, to ARM64 - add support for ACPI 6.1 - add ARM64 support to /usr/sbin/acpitools - add MSI/MSI-X and additional GICv3 interrupt controller support to ARM64 - add support for generic drivers: plcom serial, USB, SATA, and PCI Express thanks! on behalf of core, .mrg.