On Monday 08 March 2010 04:11 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday 08 March 2010 2:40:31 pm Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > Author: jkim > > Date: Mon Mar 8 19:40:31 2010 > > New Revision: 204877 > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/204877 > > > > Log: > > Enable ACPI module build on amd64. Although we strongly > > recommend building it into kernel, there is no need to prevent it > > from building at all. > > (Oops, ignore previous spurious reply). > > Please revert this. The MADT parser on amd64 is slightly different > from i386 and will not work when acpi is loaded as a module. If > anything, I would prefer we make acpi not be a module on i386. > There are several things that would be far less invasive to > implement via #ifdef DEV_ACPI than by defining runtime kobj > interfaces to the ACPI driver.
madt.c itself is not very different but I understand what you are trying to explain here. In fact, I tested it before committing and the trick was adding mptable in place of acpi. It worked fine although it may not be ideal. I can back out sys/modules/acpi/Makefile change if you agree, however. Jung-uk Kim _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
