Re: attempting to disable acpi in kernel

["Sarton O'Brien" <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

On Tuesday 26 August 2008 10:28:51 Michael Litchard wrote:
> yes, I do. But doesn't the netbsd kernel also need to disable acpi?

If it was a GENERIC kernel I'd say yes but with the hypervisor above dom0, I'd 
be inclined to believe that dom0 is smart enough to know if acpi is available 
or not.

> Trying to do it via console (using the -c) hangs. It seems the only
> way I can disable it is by
> configuring a kernel with no acpi support.
>
> Here's my menu.lst file
> title Xen 3.0 / NetBSD (hda0, vga)
>   root(hd0,0)
>   kernel (hd0,a)/xen.gz acpi=off dom0_mem=1048576
>   module (hd0,a)/netbsd-XEN3_DOM0 bootdev=wd0a ro console=tty0

What's the motivation behind manually disabling acpi in dom0?

Sarton