On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, John Baldwin wrote: > [ cc'ing acpi@ to be safe, but I think the topic warrants the wider audience > of arch@ ]
Dropping arch@ for this probably dumb question .. > I think we should drop support for having acpi load as a module for i386. > It > adds extra complication and hacks to the i386 APIC and interrupt code that > are > gratuitously different from amd64 as a result. Originally it was made a > module so that GENERIC on i386 did not include ACPI by default but would > only > use up memory to hold ACPI-related code if the machine supported ACPI. Now > that acpi is part of GENERIC on i386 in 8.0 and later this argument is no > longer relevant. I'd like to remove support for ACPI as a module to remove > the various hacks on i386 and reduce differences with amd64. Just checking: this wouldn't impede loading apm and not enabling acpi for older machines (esp. laptops) that work ok with APM but not ACPI? cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
