svn commit: r247086 - head/sys/x86/isa

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Feb 21 06:57:37 UTC 2013


On Feb 20, 2013, at 11:49 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 06:38:24AM +0000, Warner Losh wrote:
>> New Revision: 247086
>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/247086
>> 
>> Log:
>>  Correct comment about use of pmtimer, and the real reason it isn't
>>  used or desirable for amd64.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> + * pmtimer is used only with the old APM power management, and not with
>> + * acpi, which is required for amd64, so skip it in that case.
> 
> Does it also mean it should be removed from ACPI-driven i386 machines kernel
> configs?

Likely, but let me confirm with one of the laptops that I have that I know is affected and supports acpi.

Warner




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