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linux-source-2.6.15 package

  1. Bug #7249
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 7249

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:19:07 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <email address hidden>
To: Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#262383: Options

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:54:27AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Is it possible to have ACPI disabled in the kernel until acpid starts, and
> enable it then? Or must this decision be made very early in the boot
> process?

Back at Caldera we hacked acpi to be a loadable module. These days it's
not feasible anymore because many modern systems requite ACPI for early
boot actions like irq routing and SMP support.