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Date:      Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:50:28 +0200
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sio => uart: one port is gone
Message-ID:  <20080915175028.GD81522@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <48CE8D2D.4020400@icyb.net.ua>
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* Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote:
> What is the alternative?
> Building it into a kernel? Is this maybe too much of a requirement?
> From /sys/i386/conf/NOTES (RELENG_7):
> # Note that building ACPI into the kernel is deprecated; the module is
> # normally loaded automatically by the loader.

I don't really understand why this is deprecated. 99.8% of the systems
sold nowadays support ACPI. On AMD64 we enable ACPI by default, because
it's impossible to use without ACPI (?)

Shouldn't we just enable ACPI by default?

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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