Hi Nick & List,

Nicholas Esborn wrote:
>
> From what I have seen, mptable and atpic support are both designated as
> legacy capabilities on FreeBSD.  The FreeBSD developers may not want to
> re-enable them in GENERIC.  Support for non-ACPI configurations could
> become increasingly tenuous.
>
> With luck, the required options will remain available for some time to
> come, but it seems like an ACPI BIOS would be a very positive
> development for the longevity of the Net6501 with modern operating systems.

ACPI is on my long list of things to do, I'll better move it up, the 
basic ACPI stuff needed is not that complicated.

The ACPI Power is really complicated, but I have no plan to support 
that, as active power management is not something you want or need on a 
always on platform....


Best Regards,


Soren Kristensen

CEO & Chief Engineer
Soekris Engineering, Inc.
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