On Friday, 25 of July 2008, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Friday 25 July 2008 02:04:32 Len Brown wrote: [--snip--] > > Len, this is not about the thermal zone, it is just > a real-world example of something I told you will happen > if Linux stays _OSI transparent with Windows. > > This is about that they have to provide a BIOS hot-fix for > VISTA or VISTA SP and thus breaking Linux because there > is no way to distinguish anymore. > Windows 2007 likely will have that fixed and they provide > a sane _CRT trip point again. > This is an example of Windows versions workarounds that could > get much more complex, like initializing HW differently or > whatever. > _OSI is used by vendors as a convenient possibility to > adjust/workaround Windows bugs in their BIOSes, without > the need to pay Millions to Microsoft to fix their things. This is a valid point, IMO. If vendors use _OSI(Windows) to work around Windows bugs, we get broken automatically on those systems unless we put in some DMI-based hacks. Thanks, Rafael -- 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
