No acpi with 6.1-BETA4 floppies?

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 24 March 2006 11:46, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I tried to do a remote install of a amd64-based server with some 6.1-BETA4 floppies.
> 
> As it turns, 6.1-BETA4 floppies do NOT contain a acpi.ko and therefore the amd64 may refuse to boot (heard sth. about boot-problems of amd64 boxes without acpi). The install would be remote and I need to overwrite the existing linux. So i wanted at least to be sure it will boot amd64.
> 
> I checked with 6.1-BETA4 floppy-images and indeed they do contain acpi.ko.
> Will acpi.ko come back to the install floppies or has it been dropped intenionally?
> 
> Thx,

amd64 has ACPI compiled into the kernel by default rather than as a
separate module as on i386 because all amd64 machines support ACPI,
and it's pretty much mandatory.

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