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Date:      Fri, 09 May 2003 13:04:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 i386_module.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030509130459.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030509150233.GD54693@survey.codeburst.net>

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On 09-May-2003 Paul Richards wrote:
> 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.

That would only work if the kernel linker supported that.  At
the moment it doesn't. :)

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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