Re: How to buid a NON ACPI kernel?

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:47:55PM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I need a kernel without any ACPI support, because ACPI is broken for me
> >on a specific notebook.
> 
> Did you raise a PR on it?

No, because I don't expect that it can be fixed, because of the age of the BIOS,
which is 8 years old. IMHO the ACPI implmentation is too broken to be fixed, but
I would like to be proven wrong.

I need apm too for suspend to disk too.

I though about to raise one, but my guess was that the first question would be
to try a current kernel, which is not so easy at the moment, so it would be
kind of useless. I will raise one when I have the chance to update the notebook
and it is in a kind of working situation.

The last time I tried it Joerg did take a quick look to fix some basic
problems to even get it running. That was 6 months ago and it was somewhere
related to problems with the sound driver (yds).

> >It seems that it is no longer possible to build such a kernel.
> >
> >I need apm and no acpi nor ioapic.
> 
> This is certainly a bug, so for now as a workaround you can disable acpi 
> using 'boot -2'.

Is that documented somewhere?
I don't see it in boot(8)

Bernd