device atpic to be deprecated?

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 11 18:00:30 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:08, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:28:29 -0400
> John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 10 April 2006 14:24, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > > 
> > > Well, some testing with my latest STABLE source update (Fri, Apr 7)
> > > exhibits the same problems.
> > > 
> > > I can boot the kernel and mount root OK with or without ACPI enabled
> > > (via the loader tunable hint.acpi.0.disabled), but not without
> > > atpic.
> > > 
> > > I can even boot OK without "device acpi" compiled into the kernel
> > > explicitly (and with no acpi module, either, of course, as this
> > > doesn't get built under amd64), but without atpic and the associated
> > > ACPI bits it pulls in, it's a definite show-stopper.
> > > 
> > > Another interesting side effect I've noticed is that without acpi,
> > > the built-in nVidia sound chip (with the snd_ich driver compiled
> > > in) is not recognized either.
> > 
> > I've lost the context..  Can you provide a verbose dmesg both with
> > and without 'device atpic'?
> 
> Basically, the problem is that, without device atpic, I can't mount
> root, so it's impossible as well to obtain a dmesg listing for you in
> that case.

That's what serial consoles are for. :)

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