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Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka (canonical.com)
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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I hope those things will come but no need to hold off if the performance is there. UEFI, ACPI, etc. are really about the boot process. For SBC class hardware, having a device tree in the kernel works fine. Even Apple Silicon Macs use device trees (no ACPI).

On Apple Silicon, there is a project to add ACPi in software (firmware) so that they can boot operating systems that expect ACPi (like Windows). You do not need it for Linux.

Of course, dynamic device discovery and power management would be nice. Bit it is not a deal-breaker for me.