On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 19:44 -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > I think it is fine for the "BIOS" to use the OSI mechanism to ask about the OS. > However, the string "Linux" is probably not a good choice for the string. > > The reason we deleted OSI(Linux) by default is because it is ill-defined. > A good OSI string would be much more specific, ie. label something > that is well defined, or at least include version information. > > eg. "ACPI 3.0 Thermal Model" means that an OS implements the > ACPI 3.0 extensions to the thermal model (which we don't, BTW). Hi Len, Thanks for the extra explanation. For now, we've decided to go a different route and create a domain configuration option, so we can do without this patch. Thanks, Alex -- Alex Williamson HP Open Source & Linux Org. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
