cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 i386_module.c

[John Baldwin]

On 09-May-2003 Paul Richards wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 10:25:37AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
>> John Baldwin wrote:
>> > 
>> > On 30-Apr-2003 Peter Wemm wrote:
>> > > peter       2003/04/30 15:02:39 PDT
>> > > 
>> > >   FreeBSD src repository
>> > > 
>> > >   Modified files:
>> > >     sys/boot/i386/libi386 i386_module.c 
>> > >   Log:
>> > >   ACPI will always be present on AMD64 - it will never be an autodetect
>> > >   module.
>> > 
>> > I would require it in the kernel rather than load it as a module then.
>> 
>> Exactly.  But I was just getting annoyed with this warning during
>> development while I had it stubbed out.
> 
> You might still want it as a module even if it's mandatory so that
> you can choose which version to load from the bootloader when your
> testing new versions.

That would only work if the kernel linker supported that.  At
the moment it doesn't. :)

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