Shaohua, Andrew,
Yes, I have the platform to test his patch and I'll do it as soon as possible.
Regards,
Sebastian
-----Original Message-----
From: Li, Shaohua
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 2:29 AM
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: linux acpi; Brown, Len; Jarosz, Sebastian
Subject: Re: [patch]acpi: add missing _OSI strings -- resend
On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 06:08 +0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:23:20 +0800
> Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Last post (Jun 14 ) is lost, resend.
> >
> >
> > Linux supports some optional features, but it should notify BIOS about them
> > in _OSI method. Currently Linux doesn't notify any, which might make such
> > features not work because BIOS doesn't know about them.
> >
>
> This is a bit vague. Are any machines actually fixed or improved by
> this change? Is so, can we please see a full description of the
> behaviour change?
I haven't a system which needs the fix. Jarosz Sebastian has a system
which needs this to make ACPI processor aggregator device work.
Thanks,
Shaohua
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