No acpi with 6.1-BETA4 floppies?

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 24 March 2006 12:39, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:27:06 -0500
> John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Ok, maybe i was a bit unclear in that. I took the i386 floppies as I could not find any amd64 specific floppies on ftp. The i386 floppies for 6.1-BETA4 don't contain acpi while the 6.1-BETA3 floppies do.
> Are amd64 floppies beeing build at all? Or do only i386 floppies exist?

amd64 floppies are built on -HEAD.  I'm not sure why the acpi.ko was lost
from the floppies for BETA4, it should not have been.

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