Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262456AbUKWAsR (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:48:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261242AbUKWAsG (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:48:06 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:25351 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262456AbUKWAqZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:46:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:46:20 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Len Brown Cc: Chris Wright , Linus Torvalds , Bjorn Helgaas , Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot (if no floppy device) Message-ID: <20041123004619.GQ19419@stusta.de> References: <20041115152721.U14339@build.pdx.osdl.net> <1100819685.987.120.camel@d845pe> <20041118230948.W2357@build.pdx.osdl.net> <1100941324.987.238.camel@d845pe> <20041120124001.GA2829@stusta.de> <1101148138.20008.6.camel@d845pe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1101148138.20008.6.camel@d845pe> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1269 Lines: 39 On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 01:28:59PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: >... > > BTW: Is all what ACPI does really required, if all I need ACPI for is > > to turn the power off after halting my computer? > > On this system ACPI is required to configure the IOAPIC. > > It may be possible to save power in idle with c-states > and at run-time with p-states (cpufreq) on this box, > but I couldn't tell that from the dmesg if CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR > was included or not. It's not. > If you don't care about interrupt performance and you don't > mind pressing the power button when you halt the system, > go ahead and run with CONFIG_ACPI=n. Not needed "pressing the power button when you halt the system" is the "killer application" for using ACPI for me... > cheers, > -Len cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/