Looks like the spam filters ate the reply I made from my BB earlier,  
so I'll try again.

On 5-Dec-06, at 1:22 PM, David Laight wrote:
> Expect that there really are a lot of drivers (and some kernel  
> features)
> that are unnecessary.

Is this necessarily a bad thing? It would be very helpful to be able  
to test the real thing before you even begin an install.

> We also need to start with GENERIC.ACPI (or add ACPI to GENERIC).

Absolutely -- GENERIC needs to include ACPI support by default in 5.0.

Cheers,
Jared