Messages in this thread | | | From | "Grover, Andrew" <> | Subject | RE: [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2] | Date | Tue, 4 Jun 2002 16:31:17 -0700 |
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> From: Dave Jones [mailto:davej@suse.de] > > > Can you confirm that you're not advocating a "ACPI or Legacy" > > > approach ? > > > I think you're aware of the dragons that lie that way, but I > > > want to be sure my suspicions are unfounded. > > All I can say is using just *part* of ACPI will cause some machine, > > somewhere, to not work. I want to avoid scenarios where > that happens. If > > there are issues with that, can we discuss them asap, perhaps now? > > Think vendor kernel. There we want to run on ancient pre-ACPI boxes, > and super duper new box with borken/non-existant legacy tables. > So just keep in mind that compiling both into the kernel is a > must have > requirement.
Oh. OK. Yes. No disagreement there.
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