[yet another resend] On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Len Brown wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > 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. > > I belive that the AML Thomas shared does not > illustrate a Vista bug workaround in a BIOS. > Rather it is simply a BIOS bug that Vista doesn't catch. > > -Len > > -- 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
