Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:22:10 GMT From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/141353: [NOTES] [patch] i386 NOTES says building acpi into kernel is deprecated Message-ID: <200912102122.nBALMA9b096271@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200912102130.nBALU7jj063700@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 141353 >Category: docs >Synopsis: [NOTES] [patch] i386 NOTES says building acpi into kernel is deprecated >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Dec 10 21:30:07 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Bruce Cran >Release: 8.0 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD router.draftnet 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Thu Dec 10 14:21:42 GMT 2009 brucec@router.draftnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROUTER i386 >Description: /sys/i386/conf/NOTES says that building acpi into the kernel is deprecated, and should be loaded as a module. However, acpi is built into GENERIC. >How-To-Repeat: Read /sys/i386/conf/NOTES >Fix: Patch attached with submission follows: --- NOTES.orig 2009-12-10 21:13:37.000000000 +0000 +++ NOTES 2009-12-10 21:13:05.000000000 +0000 @@ -463,9 +463,6 @@ # kernel environment variables to select initial debugging levels for the # Intel ACPICA code. (Note that the Intel code must also have USE_DEBUGGER # defined when it is built). -# -# Note that building ACPI into the kernel is deprecated; the module is -# normally loaded automatically by the loader. device acpi options ACPI_DEBUG >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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