On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:41:35 +0000, David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:46:57PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > 
> > > Would it be safe to simply switch on acpi in INSTALL?
> > 
> > The main problem is that there are some brocken ACPI implementations out
> > there (and still some bugs left in our ACPI code I guess). So we really need
> > both ...
> 
> Following on from another suggestion in another thread...
> We could have a 'small' install kernel without ACPI that fits inside the
> 2GB limit - and so will boot with floopy emulation and on old systems, and
> a larger instal kernel more suited to modern systems with ACPI, LFS (and
> maybe without some of the ancient ISA card support) that doesn't have
> to be under 2GB.
> 
That sounds like a really good idea.  I suspect we can find some other
things to eliminate from old systems' install kernels.


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb