From: Matt Causey <matt.causey@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 08:27:19 -0700

> config VIA_VELOCITY
>         tristate "VIA Velocity support"
>         depends on PCI && PM && ACPI
> 
> since today it's only depending on pci.
> 
> If this is the right thing to do I can submit a patch .  Apologies
> again for the red herring.  :-)

Needing ACPI for proper functioning of a moden x86 system
is no surprise, and isn't a VIA specific issue :-)