RE: [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2]

[Grover, Andrew]

> From: Dave Jones [mailto:[e-mail]] 
>  > > Can you confirm that you're not advocating a "ACPI or Legacy" 
>  > > approach ?
>  > > I think you're aware of the dragons that lie that way, but I 
>  > > want to be sure my suspicions are unfounded.
>  > All I can say is using just *part* of ACPI will cause some machine,
>  > somewhere, to not work. I want to avoid scenarios where 
> that happens. If
>  > there are issues with that, can we discuss them asap, perhaps now?
> 
> Think vendor kernel. There we want to run on ancient pre-ACPI boxes,
> and super duper new box with borken/non-existant legacy tables.
> So just keep in mind that compiling both into the kernel is a 
> must have
> requirement.

Oh. OK. Yes. No disagreement there.

-- Andy