Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS

[Kazutaka YOKOTA]

>The loader now detects ACPI in your system, and loads the ACPI
>module if it is present.  This has major ramifications for the
>device probe and attach phases of system initialisation.
>
> - Root PCI bridges are detected using ACPI.
> - PCI interrupt routing is now performed using ACPI.
> - The PnP BIOS is disabled and onboard peripherals are detected
>   using ACPI, and attach to ACPI and not isa.
> - System-owned resources are detected and reserved by ACPI.

Then, shouldn't we remove the PnP BIOS driver (pnpbios) from the
kernel and make it a module, so that the boot loader will load either
the ACPI module or the PnP BIOS module?

Kazu

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