Removing acpi.ko support
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 28 16:54:44 UTC 2010
[ 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.
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John Baldwin
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