Removing acpi.ko support

[Ian Smith]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, John Baldwin wrote:
 > [ cc'ing acpi@ to be safe, but I think the topic warrants the wider audience 
 > of arch@ ]

Dropping arch@ for this probably dumb question ..

 > 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.

Just checking: this wouldn't impede loading apm and not enabling acpi 
for older machines (esp. laptops) that work ok with APM but not ACPI?

cheers, Ian