Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:57:22 -0700 From: Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing acpi.ko support Message-ID: <4CC9AB72.1000800@feral.com> In-Reply-To: <201010281254.39862.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201010281254.39862.jhb@freebsd.org>
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Will there be still a a way to disable it from the OK prompt? On 10/28/2010 9:54 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > [ cc'ing acpi@ to be safe, but I think the topic warrants the wider audience > of arch@ ] > > 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. >
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