acpi.ko not being built?
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 12 05:25:31 PDT 2007
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:02:08PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 05:19:50PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > Erik Cederstrand wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > I'm attempting to upgrade a server to amd64 CURRENT from an older snapshot.
> > > I have "MODULES_OVERRIDE= acpi" in make.conf but apparently only the
> > > acpi_*.ko files are being built, not acpi.ko itself. As a result, acpi.ko
> > > is not being loaded on boot.
> > > This used to work on 6.2, so I'm not sure where to look. This happens on a
> > > GENERIC kernel config. My src.conf has the following:
> >
> > Since ACPI is mandatory on amd64, it's included in GENERIC. Not sure why it
> > wouldn't be building as a module for you, but if you're using an
> > unmodified GENERIC then you're already getting it included.
>
> When I looked earlier today it looks like the sys/modules/acpi Makefiles
> would just refuse if you tried.
>
This is a (makefile-)documented bug:
.if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "amd64"
_aac= aac
#_acpi= acpi # doesn't work on amd64 yet
# acpi is not enabled because it is broken as a module on ia64
Cheers,
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Ruslan Ermilov
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