manual pages of acpi_* drivers

[Rong-en Fan]

On 4/3/07, Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 03:32:31AM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some time ago, we build all acpi_* on all platforms,
> >
> I think it was from the very beginning actually.
>
> > However, manual pages are still built only on i386.
> > I think they should be moved to arch-independent
> > directory.
> >
> Modules for ACPI extras are currently built only on
> i386 and amd64.  ACPI is also needed on ia64 but it
> is broken as a module there, and these extras do not
> apply on ia64 (I don't believe there exist any ia64
> laptops but I may be mistaken).

from sys/modules/acpi/Makefile, all acpi extra drivers are
built on all arch.

> I think a more careful approach should be taken instead:
>
> 1) Determine which of these modules makes sense to
>    to have on both i386 and amd64.  Repocopy the
>    respective manpages to a MI directory but still
>    install them only on i386 and amd64 (so the manpages
>    match the installed modules).
>
> 2) Move the i386-only extras from sys/conf/files to
>    sys/conf/files.i386.

Yes, this makes sense. But, the problem is that I don't
know exactly which extra driver is i386 only. As more and
more vendors supply x86_64 laptop...

Thanks for the point.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Ruslan Ermilov
> ru at FreeBSD.org
> FreeBSD committer
>
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