On 18-Aug-2003 John Baldwin wrote:> In order to support the eventual MFC of a limited and experimental acpi(4)
> driver from -CURRENT, I have merged a few changes from -CURRENT to -STABLE
> including:
>
> - Power management interface (subr_power.c)
> - pmtimer(4) driver. Unlike -CURRENT this driver does not require
> 'device pmtimer' in the kernel config so that existing kernel
configs
> do not have to be changed.
> - Updated suspend/resume code in the i386 interrupt and clock code.
> - APM driver updated for the above changes (includes syncing with
> -CURRENT)
>
> There should be no regression in APM functionality. If there is, please
> let myself and re@ know. Working APM in 4.9-RELEASE is more important
> than experimental ACPI support.
>
> Thanks.
Just to clarify: the incoming ACPI support will be experimental and
therefore _optional_. It will only be in a 4.x kernel if you explicitly
build custom kernel with 'device acpica' in it.
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