From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 1 04:51:56 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 C8B3616A400 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 04:51:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B3B43D48 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 04:51:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.21]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k414po8O061200 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 1 May 2006 14:21:50 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 14:21:48 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <6eb82e0604300552he3d8010yf2ca81e52b54c4a7@mail.gmail.com> <6eb82e0604302110j7bca56eftce23feb306111823@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4038429.TdPLxQ7dff"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200605011421.49909.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.36 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Rong-En Fan , Marcel Moolenaar 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 04:51:56 -0000 --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--