cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 i386_module.c

[Paul Richards]

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 18:04, John Baldwin wrote:
> On 09-May-2003 Paul Richards wrote:
> > On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 10:25:37AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> >> John Baldwin wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > On 30-Apr-2003 Peter Wemm wrote:
> >> > > peter       2003/04/30 15:02:39 PDT
> >> > > 
> >> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> >> > > 
> >> > >   Modified files:
> >> > >     sys/boot/i386/libi386 i386_module.c 
> >> > >   Log:
> >> > >   ACPI will always be present on AMD64 - it will never be an autodetect
> >> > >   module.
> >> > 
> >> > I would require it in the kernel rather than load it as a module then.
> >> 
> >> Exactly.  But I was just getting annoyed with this warning during
> >> development while I had it stubbed out.
> > 
> > You might still want it as a module even if it's mandatory so that
> > you can choose which version to load from the bootloader when your
> > testing new versions.
> 
> That would only work if the kernel linker supported that.  At
> the moment it doesn't. :)

I don't follow, I do this all the time?

or do you mean that having it mandatory would not work if it's also a
module?

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Paul Richards <paul at freebsd-services.com>
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