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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2]
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:09:48PM -0700, Grover, Andrew wrote:
 
 > > Can you confirm that you're not advocating a "ACPI or Legacy" 
 > > approach ?
 > > I think you're aware of the dragons that lie that way, but I 
 > > want to be sure my suspicions are unfounded.
 > All I can say is using just *part* of ACPI will cause some machine,
 > somewhere, to not work. I want to avoid scenarios where that happens. If
 > there are issues with that, can we discuss them asap, perhaps now?

Think vendor kernel. There we want to run on ancient pre-ACPI boxes,
and super duper new box with borken/non-existant legacy tables.
So just keep in mind that compiling both into the kernel is a must have
requirement.

    Dave.

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| SuSE Labs
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