On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 11:45 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > >> Before plunging forward, have you observed any difference between the >> boot modes? We have reports [1] that the backlight behaviour is >> different with UEFI vs. UEFI+CSM or legacy boot. So I'm wondering if the >> acpi_gbl_osi_data >= ACPI_OSI_WIN_8 check in patch 2/2 is the whole >> story. >> >> Further, if we tell the BIOS we're Windows 8 to use the tested BIOS code >> paths, what guarantees do we have of UEFI+CSM or legacy boots working? > > We have no evidence of Windows behaving differently based on the exposed > firmware type. By "behaving differently", do you mean internally adapting to the boot mode, or exhibiting different behaviour to the user? We have evidence of the firmware behaving differently (VBT, backlight) based on the boot mode, all else being equal. We don't adapt to that, and we fail. I don't know if we should adapt, or do things differently altogether. I don't even know if Windows 8 works on all boot modes on the machines in question. BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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
