Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:54:39 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: arch@freebsd.org Cc: acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Removing acpi.ko support Message-ID: <201010281254.39862.jhb@freebsd.org>
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[ cc'ing acpi@ to be safe, but I think the topic warrants the wider audience of arch@ ] I think we should drop support for having acpi load as a module for i386. It adds extra complication and hacks to the i386 APIC and interrupt code that are gratuitously different from amd64 as a result. Originally it was made a module so that GENERIC on i386 did not include ACPI by default but would only use up memory to hold ACPI-related code if the machine supported ACPI. Now that acpi is part of GENERIC on i386 in 8.0 and later this argument is no longer relevant. I'd like to remove support for ACPI as a module to remove the various hacks on i386 and reduce differences with amd64. -- John Baldwin
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