Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 14:21:48 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Rong-En Fan <grafan@gmail.com>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: lpt0 disappear (ppc related) Message-ID: <200605011421.49909.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <F6294440-A3A6-4B45-90F4-84B51405E79C@xcllnt.net> References: <6eb82e0604300552he3d8010yf2ca81e52b54c4a7@mail.gmail.com> <6eb82e0604302110j7bca56eftce23feb306111823@mail.gmail.com> <F6294440-A3A6-4B45-90F4-84B51405E79C@xcllnt.net>
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--nextPart4038429.TdPLxQ7dff Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 01 May 2006 13:50, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > 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? > > No, it isn't really. The use of modules is not a requirement. However you wouldn't expect that using it as a module would result in reduc= ed=20 functionality. (The same as how you wouldn't expect compiling something int= o=20 your kernel would result in reduced functionality) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart4038429.TdPLxQ7dff Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEVZPl5ZPcIHs/zowRAoTYAJ9PFn9Q1TwoX0ZKjACVPXnsh/tlkwCeMXAG 1V6w7jjFN/DgvgO63TyZlw4= =OuDl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4038429.TdPLxQ7dff--
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