Subject: Re: Call for testers: ACPI suspend/resume, part 2
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org, port-i386@NetBSD.org,>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: current-users
Date: 12/20/2007 15:32:30
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:19:23AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > Real APM is deprecated :-) There's a second kernel for that...
> 
> I don't like that.  Plenty of machines were manufactured with APM and no
> ACPI, or APM and broken ACPI, and some of those machines are still in
> use.  I think we should try to support them.

I did not say that I want to remove it. But it is legacy and I think it
is perfectly fine to use the GENERIC_NOACPI kernel on those machines.

Joerg