docs/141353: [NOTES] [patch] i386 NOTES says building acpi into kernel is deprecated
Bruce Cran
bruce at cran.org.uk
Thu Dec 10 21:30:08 UTC 2009
>Number: 141353
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [NOTES] [patch] i386 NOTES says building acpi into kernel is deprecated
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Dec 10 21:30:07 UTC 2009
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Bruce Cran
>Release: 8.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD router.draftnet 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Thu Dec 10 14:21:42 GMT 2009 brucec at router.draftnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROUTER i386
>Description:
/sys/i386/conf/NOTES says that building acpi into the kernel is deprecated, and should be loaded as a module. However, acpi is built into GENERIC.
>How-To-Repeat:
Read /sys/i386/conf/NOTES
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
--- NOTES.orig 2009-12-10 21:13:37.000000000 +0000
+++ NOTES 2009-12-10 21:13:05.000000000 +0000
@@ -463,9 +463,6 @@
# kernel environment variables to select initial debugging levels for the
# Intel ACPICA code. (Note that the Intel code must also have USE_DEBUGGER
# defined when it is built).
-#
-# Note that building ACPI into the kernel is deprecated; the module is
-# normally loaded automatically by the loader.
device acpi
options ACPI_DEBUG
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