Re: lpt0 disappear (ppc related)

On 4/30/06, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel_at_xcllnt.net> wrote:
> On Apr 30, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Rong-En Fan wrote:
> > On 4/30/06, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel_at_xcllnt.net> wrote:
> >> On Apr 30, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Rong-En Fan wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > After upgrading from Apr 11 to Arp 29. I found that my lpt0
> >> > disappearing,
> >> > and ppc0 is no longer attached.
> >>
> >> You need to configure your kernel with acpi. The ppc(4) driver ends
> >> up without acpi attachment because of that. This causes it to try
> >> the isa attachment, but that fails.
> >
> > I have acpi.ko loaded.
>
> Which means you don't have device acpi configured into the kernel.
>
> > Before the change, ppc0 was found on
> > acpi0 (see my dmesg).
>
> That's because you have device isa configured into the kernel and
> the acpi attachment was coupled to device isa. I uncoupled it with
> the commit, because device acpi needs to be able to exist without
> there being a device isa. So, the acpi attachment for ppc(4) exists
> only when device acpi is configured in the kernel.
> Alternatively, someone needs to make a module for ppc(4).

OK, I see. Thanks for the explnation.

As for building acpi into kernel, i386/conf/NOTES says:

# Note that building ACPI into the kernel is deprecated; the module is
# normally loaded automatically by the loader.

I thought that was deprecated?

Regards,
Rong-En Fan