From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 1 04:10:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924BD16A401 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 04:10:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B3343D48 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 04:10:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id x3so2800969nzd for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:10:41 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZeaO35+WLK82PiqsAErRXmcZV4toIoNDdPBfR+6MQbDWbKFLUXht4tQeggM7BjygCh1XETS9YxE6o2mriorNvg36S+3jXYADZfgpulYsFjws0UY+3cMEBgpGMEBF9G6BRg2mFAWsiSTZ9QJBLv3t9i7vZuZmE03HaxyJg7fJTn8= Received: by 10.36.158.17 with SMTP id g17mr1799577nze; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.24.17 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6eb82e0604302110j7bca56eftce23feb306111823@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 00:10:41 -0400 From: "Rong-En Fan" To: "Marcel Moolenaar" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <6eb82e0604300552he3d8010yf2ca81e52b54c4a7@mail.gmail.com> <72F3EFB8-E710-4288-8719-89B6BE7B4D2C@xcllnt.net> <6eb82e0604301231g568cc12ah3b2d4f7ae5377e69@mail.gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: lpt0 disappear (ppc related) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 04:10:42 -0000 On 4/30/06, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Apr 30, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Rong-En Fan wrote: > > On 4/30/06, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > >> On Apr 30, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Rong-En Fan wrote: > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > After upgrading from Apr 11 to Arp 29. I found that my lpt0 > >> > disappearing, > >> > and ppc0 is no longer attached. > >> > >> You need to configure your kernel with acpi. The ppc(4) driver ends > >> up without acpi attachment because of that. This causes it to try > >> the isa attachment, but that fails. > > > > I have acpi.ko loaded. > > Which means you don't have device acpi configured into the kernel. > > > Before the change, ppc0 was found on > > acpi0 (see my dmesg). > > That's because you have device isa configured into the kernel and > the acpi attachment was coupled to device isa. I uncoupled it with > the commit, because device acpi needs to be able to exist without > there being a device isa. So, the acpi attachment for ppc(4) exists > only when device acpi is configured in the kernel. > Alternatively, someone needs to make a module for ppc(4). OK, I see. Thanks for the explnation. As for building acpi into kernel, i386/conf/NOTES says: # Note that building ACPI into the kernel is deprecated; the module is # normally loaded automatically by the loader. I thought that was deprecated? Regards, Rong-En Fan