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To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: ACPI module loading. 
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From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
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> and both loaded the acpi moduse from /boot/kernel/acpi.ko. I thought
> that the loader was supposed to be clever enough to find these
> things. I suppose it could be the acpi loader, the loader or me
> which is broked.

The way the loader finds the ACPI module is unsophisticated and needs to
be modified; boot-conf with a non-default path doesn't seem to update the 
module path, so the loader gets the wrong module. 8(


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