acpi in new loader

Kenneth Culver culverk at sweetdreamsracing.biz
Thu Nov 13 17:28:22 PST 2003


Quoting Matthew Dillon <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> :
> :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
>
>     Actually, I've reconsidered... keep the boot loader ACPI stuff in.  We
>     will eventually use it.
>
>     Nearly all new machines use ACPI now so we are eventually going to have
>     to integrate it in and the loader could very well be the best place to do
>     it.
>
Yeah, I just wasn't sure we had support for it, I was posting from my
not-updated DragonFly machine at work before, and now from my mac, so I have
not yet had a chance to look. Just looking for smaller tasks that I have time
to mess with. :-) I was actually wondering if anyone had ported acpi earlier
this week, and thinking about doing it myself as my machine won't turn itself
off when I shut down (APM doesn't work, and I don't leave it on because I'm
cheap on electricity).

Ken





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