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Date:      Fri, 9 May 2003 16:02:34 +0100
From:      Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 i386_module.c
Message-ID:  <20030509150233.GD54693@survey.codeburst.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030501172537.E5DB12A8AB@canning.wemm.org>
References:  <XFMail.20030501103745.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20030501172537.E5DB12A8AB@canning.wemm.org>

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On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 10:25:37AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > 
> > On 30-Apr-2003 Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > peter       2003/04/30 15:02:39 PDT
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/boot/i386/libi386 i386_module.c 
> > >   Log:
> > >   ACPI will always be present on AMD64 - it will never be an autodetect
> > >   module.
> > 
> > I would require it in the kernel rather than load it as a module then.
> 
> Exactly.  But I was just getting annoyed with this warning during
> development while I had it stubbed out.

You might still want it as a module even if it's mandatory so that
you can choose which version to load from the bootloader when your
testing new versions.

-- 
Paul Richards



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