[Buildroot] [PATCH] acpid: drop x86 architecture dependency

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Aug 29 20:06:23 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:07:01 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> Closes #11241
> 
> While ACPI is historically exclusively a x86 feature, ia64 and (some) arm64
> server platforms also use it.  Furthermore, even if the firmware does not
> provide an ACPI interface and/or the kernel is not built with ACPI support,
> acpid can still be used to command an orderly shutdown of the system as it
> also listens for KEY_POWER / KEY_SUSPEND events from the input subsystem
> (and calls shutdown by default).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
> ---
>  package/acpid/Config.in | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Applied to next, thanks. Even though it's fixing what was reported as a
bug, I don't think this qualifies as a bug, so I've applied to next and
not to master.

Thomas
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