From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 14:46:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A3C106564A for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:46:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A008FC0A for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:46:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 19A9F46B0C; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:46:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0F1788A027; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:46:50 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "C. P. Ghost" Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:57:35 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100819; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201011081714.53637.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011100857.35286.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:46:50 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.3 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=4.2 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Only display ACPI bootmenu key if ACPI is present 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: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:46:51 -0000 On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 5:58:13 pm C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:14 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > > This patch changes the Forth code for the Beastie menu to only display the > > menu option to enable or disable ACPI if the loader detects ACPI. This avoids > > displaying a menu item prompting to enable ACPI if the BIOS doesn't actually > > include ACPI. Any objections? > > Wouldn't that be a POLA violation? Some admins may be used to the > current menu, and would be scratching head as what went wrong. > Maybe it would be better to keep the menu option, but make it > non-selectable and print next to it something like "(not available)"? Hmmm, I'll see if I can leave the numbering unchanged but not list the item perhaps. Note that we already have the "alternate" numbering on other platforms so the menu is already inconsistent across FreeBSD platforms. -- John Baldwin