revisiting tunables under Safe Mode menu option

[Scott Long]

On Feb 28, 2012, at 6:46 AM, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:23:11 am Scott Long wrote:
>> I still think that it's useful to be able to disable ACPI.  Just because 
> ACPI works well on modern hardware doesn't mean that everything crummy from 
> 2000-2007 suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth.  But I agree that 
> turning it off on modern systems probably does more harm than good.  Hence my 
> suggestion for a finer control over this in the menu.  Maybe Devin Teske can 
> lend some help with this task?  For extra credit, it should be possible to 
> write a simple static analysis tool that collects all of the tunables that are 
> compiled into the kernel and generates a data file that the boot menu can 
> process and turn into interactive knobs for the user.
> 
> Hmm, with the newer boot menu, can't one now toggle safe mode and ACPI 
> independently?  (Assuming we haven't removed the ability to disable ACPI from 
> the menu, if we have we should perhaps put that back).  Having them be 
> orthogonal knobs would seem to the be the best approach.
> 

Yes, Andriy reminded me of this last night, so I withdraw my comments.

Scott