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