cvs commit: src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf

Marcel Moolenaar marcel at xcllnt.net
Mon Mar 1 15:44:45 PST 2004


On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:29:35PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > >
> > > Is this something that needs to be done any time a new driver is
> > > committed?  Or is this related to the acpi auto-load special case.
> >
> > Probably not.  The list in loader.conf is stale and incomplete except for
> > occasional updates.  IMHO, it's not the best place to document all the
> > possible modules.  Especially since this file is MI and several modules (such
> > as this one) are not MI.
> 
> While on that subject, this module should work on i386, ia64, amd64.  I
> guess I have to add entries to NOTES for all those archs and not the
> global NOTES?

Yes, ideally. Note that since ia64 does not support ACPI as a module
(it must always and non-optionally be compiled into the kernel), you
may want to skip ia64 if the video extensions only build as a module.
This may also hold for amd64...

FYI,

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