Removing acpi.ko support

Matthew Jacob mj at feral.com
Thu Oct 28 17:27:51 UTC 2010


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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