Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 00:10:41 -0400 From: "Rong-En Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> To: "Marcel Moolenaar" <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: lpt0 disappear (ppc related) Message-ID: <6eb82e0604302110j7bca56eftce23feb306111823@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <F80A93D7-C4F7-445D-B202-83B11BFE019E@xcllnt.net> References: <6eb82e0604300552he3d8010yf2ca81e52b54c4a7@mail.gmail.com> <72F3EFB8-E710-4288-8719-89B6BE7B4D2C@xcllnt.net> <6eb82e0604301231g568cc12ah3b2d4f7ae5377e69@mail.gmail.com> <F80A93D7-C4F7-445D-B202-83B11BFE019E@xcllnt.net>
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On 4/30/06, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> wrote: > On Apr 30, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Rong-En Fan wrote: > > On 4/30/06, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> wrote: > >> On Apr 30, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Rong-En Fan wrote: > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > After upgrading from Apr 11 to Arp 29. I found that my lpt0 > >> > disappearing, > >> > and ppc0 is no longer attached. > >> > >> You need to configure your kernel with acpi. The ppc(4) driver ends > >> up without acpi attachment because of that. This causes it to try > >> the isa attachment, but that fails. > > > > I have acpi.ko loaded. > > Which means you don't have device acpi configured into the kernel. > > > Before the change, ppc0 was found on > > acpi0 (see my dmesg). > > That's because you have device isa configured into the kernel and > the acpi attachment was coupled to device isa. I uncoupled it with > the commit, because device acpi needs to be able to exist without > there being a device isa. So, the acpi attachment for ppc(4) exists > only when device acpi is configured in the kernel. > Alternatively, someone needs to make a module for ppc(4). OK, I see. Thanks for the explnation. 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? Regards, Rong-En Fan
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