Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:20:38 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: taxman <taxman@acd.net> Cc: Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MFC of ACPI code possible? Message-ID: <20030311082038.A8547@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200303102258.37362.taxman@acd.net>; from taxman@acd.net on Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:58:37PM -0500 References: <20030311012524.GA450@no-support.loc> <200303102258.37362.taxman@acd.net>
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:58:37PM -0500, taxman wrote: > On Monday 10 March 2003 08:25 pm, Bjoern Fischer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I need a server running -STABLE to be powered down by 'halt -p'. > > Unfortunately the Hardware only supports ACPI and no APM. Is it > > possible to MFC the ACPI code (it's from Intel, partially?)? > > Running -CURRENT ist not an option for me at this time. > > well if you folow the -current mailing list you'll see lots and lots of > problems and discussions with acpi on -current, so I'd say it's not really > ready for MFC'ing. That's just based on subjective counts of the mails going > by, but somebody else may have more useful information. > lots of discussions on it also means it is improving, so i guess be patient, If you search the mailing list archives you will find a post by jhb@ with a pointer to a patchset for -stable. That was causing grief as well. ACPI is a can of worms, nasty worms I might add. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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