On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:54:27AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Is it possible to have ACPI disabled in the kernel until acpid starts, and > enable it then? Or must this decision be made very early in the boot > process? Back at Caldera we hacked acpi to be a loadable module. These days it's not feasible anymore because many modern systems requite ACPI for early boot actions like irq routing and SMP support.