Re: acpi in new loader

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 13, 2003, at 6:26 PM, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> 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.

For basic ACPI support all you need to do is add 'device acpica' into 
your
kernel configuration file. This will statically compile ACPI support 
into the
kernel. This is not in the GENERIC kernel configuration file as to 
relieve
any extra intrusion people may feel about ACPI at this time(there was a 
lot
of pressure against me adding ACPI into DragonFly). In FreeBSD 5.x the
default is a kernel loadable module, hence the options to boot without 
ACPI
in the loader.

-DR