Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2] | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 05 Jun 2002 00:16:12 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 22:58, Grover, Andrew wrote: > So, let's assume in the very near future it becomes possible to compile a > kernel without MPS or $PIR support. Where should those config options go? > These, in addition to pnpbios, are also unneeded with ACPI. That is why I > was advocating the more general "Platform interface options" menu, so we > could have *one* place to config these and ACPI in or out, instead of having > the many different platform interface options in different logical areas.
Hardware Discovery using PnpBIOS ISAPnP MCA PCI ACPI
IRQ Routing using PCI BIOS $PIR MP 1.x ACPI
Power Management using CPU idling instructions APM Direct power management ACPI
There are all sorts of combinations that make sense, and trying to make them all map around ACPI makes no sense, especially once you hit non x86 platforms where the mentality is quite different about what is associated
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