On Feb 28, 2012, at 6:46 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:23:11 am Scott Long wrote: >> I still think that it's useful to be able to disable ACPI. Just because > ACPI works well on modern hardware doesn't mean that everything crummy from > 2000-2007 suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth. But I agree that > turning it off on modern systems probably does more harm than good. Hence my > suggestion for a finer control over this in the menu. Maybe Devin Teske can > lend some help with this task? For extra credit, it should be possible to > write a simple static analysis tool that collects all of the tunables that > are > compiled into the kernel and generates a data file that the boot menu can > process and turn into interactive knobs for the user. > > Hmm, with the newer boot menu, can't one now toggle safe mode and ACPI > independently? (Assuming we haven't removed the ability to disable ACPI from > the menu, if we have we should perhaps put that back). Having them be > orthogonal knobs would seem to the be the best approach. >
Yes, Andriy reminded me of this last night, so I withdraw my comments. Scott _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
