FreeBSD on AMD 64 Boot Lock Up - ACPI Related

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Sun May 8 14:42:26 PDT 2005


On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 11:08:49PM +0200, Joseph Borg wrote:
> Hi,
> Yes that seems to have solved the problem. Incidentally, would you know what
> the disadvantage of having acpi disabled like that is?

First of all, please to not top-post. It disturbs the normal flow of
reading.

But to answer your question, if your PC's devices are all correctly
working with FreeBSD drivers and if you don't use power management I see
no great need for ACPI. Laptops might need the power management
component of ACPI. Some motherboards use ACPI to let you read out things
like temperatures and fan speeds. But those can mostly also be
discovered by other programs.

Roland

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