Len Brown wrote:
I am okay with defining OSI strings for the benefit of BIOS vendors that need to know about Linux capabilities. But the string must identify that specific capability (or lack of a capability).
Is there a chance this will be added to future ACPI specs, or have it standardized in one way or another? I think that would be not only good for Linux, but all other UNIX-like operating systems as well (and maybe Windows as well).
Not that I care, really, but for me as an outsider to the whole ACPI domain, it seems _OSI() isn't a well thought out interface. Checking for an OS name rather than individual capabilities may not matter as much under Windows, but for Linux, with its rather short release cycle, it certainly does.
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