[haiku-gsoc] Re: First timer.diff (from private e-mails)

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Dustin Howett <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would not be opposed to somehow moving ACPI into the kernel to help
> with HPET (need to talk to Korli, i imagine).. otherwise, I'm not
> quite sure how to implement the timers as true modules. Moving the
> module init code earlier in the kernel (before timers) may not be the
> best way to go (speaking from an uneducated-on-this-topic standpoint,
> of course) only because scheduling is needed for modules (I believe
> Stefano mentioned) and it would be a good deal of work.
>

I'm not if this same approach is feasible for us, but what FreeBSD
appears to do is compile acpi as a module and have the bootloader
preload it along with the kernel so it's available immediately.

Regards,

Rene

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