On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 10:48:09PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 07:13:47PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 01:03:33AM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > > 
> > > Module Name:	src
> > > Committed By:	ad
> > > Date:		Tue Dec 25 01:03:33 UTC 2007
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > > 	src/distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/i386: md.h msg.md.de msg.md.en msg.md.es
> > > 	    msg.md.fr msg.md.pl
> > > 	src/etc/etc.i386: Makefile.inc
> > > 	src/sys/arch/i386/conf: GENERIC GENERIC.NOACPI
> > > Removed Files:
> > > 	src/sys/arch/i386/conf: GENERIC.MP
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > Make SMP the default on i386. For the time being the noacpi kernel does
> > > not have it enabled.
> > 
> > Is there a way to disable it at runtime (from boot -c) ? I think it can be
> > usefull ...
> 
> Not yet, which is why I left the noacpi kernel as is. boot -c doesn't work
> with USB keyboards and there is no easy and reliable way to fix that, that
> I know of yet.

It should work if the BIOS provides some emulation. It works on the
Dell system I've got access to, which have USB-only keyboard for some
time now.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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