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Date:      Fri, 09 Aug 2002 20:43:02 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        julian@elischer.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 i386_module.c 
Message-ID:  <60458.1028918582@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Aug 2002 12:43:32 MDT." <20020809.124332.96079532.imp@bsdimp.com> 

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In message <20020809.124332.96079532.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>In message: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208091112390.88237-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
>            Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
>: personally I think you should not get acpi unless you have 
>: "acpi_enable" in your loader.conf.
>
>Well, if things don't change by 5.0, I'd agree with you.  However,
>we're still finding problems with acpi that we wouldn't find it if
>wasn't enabled. :-(  And there are work arounds in the works for the
>two most severe problems at the moment (failure to route interrupts,
>and the subsequent pccbb crash).  Other than those two problems, I
>know of no other major issues with acpi at this time.

Well, there are a lot of "do not work" or "do not work correctly"
things, but they would be "doesn't even exist without ACPI" so they
are not on either side of the scale for this argument.

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