Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:45:16 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing acpi.ko support Message-ID: <201010290945.16281.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20101029124821.B33417@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <201010281254.39862.jhb@freebsd.org> <20101029124821.B33417@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Thursday, October 28, 2010 9:59:26 pm Ian Smith wrote: > 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? Correct. -- John Baldwin
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