Re: For SuSE Users.. New Mantel Kernel..

According to John S. Andersen,
> On 7 Jul 2003 at 12:24, Tony Godshall wrote:
> 
> > I find it odd that its .config doesn't have ACPI enabled.
> > 
> > What Sony models is it aimed at?
> > 
> > According to John S. Andersen,
> 
> Tony, You seem to misunderstand the thread....
> 
> Mantel (Hubert Mantel) is SuSE's main kernal guy, and he does not 
> "AIM" at sony or any other machine.  He is the pricipal guy at SuSE 
> who maintains their production and developmental kernels.  
> 
> ACPI, in suse kernels, is turned on at boot time by inspection of the 
> bios.  It its date is after jan-2001 it turns on acpi unless you over 
> ride that with a command line boot option.  
> 
> In 8.2 it did not automatically start acpid, but acpi was enabled. 
> This oversight may have been corrected, but suse approaches acpid as 
> just another service you may or may not choose to load.  
> 
> It is not necessary to run acpid in order to obtain the irq routing 
> that acpi supports - and which so many sonys require.
> 
> Acpid is only usefull to allow battery, lid, buttons, and jogdials to 
> be probperly routed to the appropriate software.  

Ah!  Since it was posted on linux-sony, I assumed it was
Linux and Sony related.  Silly me.  ;-)