Re: acpi in new loader

[Kenneth Culver <culverk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>
> :Hi, I noticed that the new loader ported from -CURRENT tries to autoload the
> :acpi kernel module like -CURRENT does too. Are we planning on pulling acpi
> :support from -CURRENT or would it be useful for me to write a patch to get
> rid
> :of ACPI from the loader?
> :
> :Ken
>
>     Good question.  I am not particularly fond of the way -current depends on
>     the loader for that, I would prefer simply to build it into the kern
>     (which is basically how it works in our kernel anyway), so if you want to
>     disable the autoloading attempt please go head.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

OK, I'll work on that later today or tomorrow. Are we ever planning on having
acpi support? Is it already there and I'm just not seeing it? Your comment
above "(which is basically how it works in our kernel anyway)" seems to imply
we have it but as far as I know it's not there.

Ken