Removing acpi.ko support

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, October 28, 2010 9:59:26 pm Ian Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, John Baldwin wrote:
>  > [ cc'ing acpi@ to be safe, but I think the topic warrants the wider audience 
>  > of arch@ ]
> 
> Dropping arch@ for this probably dumb question ..
> 
>  > 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.
> 
> Just checking: this wouldn't impede loading apm and not enabling acpi 
> for older machines (esp. laptops) that work ok with APM but not ACPI?

Correct.

-- 
John Baldwin