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Re: acpi in new loader


To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Kip Macy <kmacy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:46:09 -0800

"locate acpi" returns a large number of results for me, David Rhodus did
a big commit not too long ago - I think that David has actively been
testing it, but your mileage may vary


			-Kip

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Kenneth Culver wrote:

> Quoting Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> >
> > :Hi, I noticed that the new loader ported from -CURRENT tries to autoload the
> > :acpi kernel module like -CURRENT does too. Are we planning on pulling acpi
> > :support from -CURRENT or would it be useful for me to write a patch to get
> > rid
> > :of ACPI from the loader?
> > :
> > :Ken
> >
> >     Good question.  I am not particularly fond of the way -current depends on
> >     the loader for that, I would prefer simply to build it into the kern
> >     (which is basically how it works in our kernel anyway), so if you want to
> >     disable the autoloading attempt please go head.
> >
> > 					-Matt
> > 					Matthew Dillon
> > 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
>
> OK, I'll work on that later today or tomorrow. Are we ever planning on having
> acpi support? Is it already there and I'm just not seeing it? Your comment
> above "(which is basically how it works in our kernel anyway)" seems to imply
> we have it but as far as I know it's not there.
>
> Ken
>



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