On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 19:44 -0500, Len Brown wrote:
>
> I think it is fine for the "BIOS" to use the OSI mechanism to ask about the
> OS.
> However, the string "Linux" is probably not a good choice for the string.
>
> The reason we deleted OSI(Linux) by default is because it is ill-defined.
> A good OSI string would be much more specific, ie. label something
> that is well defined, or at least include version information.
>
> eg. "ACPI 3.0 Thermal Model" means that an OS implements the
> ACPI 3.0 extensions to the thermal model (which we don't, BTW).
Hi Len,
Thanks for the extra explanation. For now, we've decided to go a
different route and create a domain configuration option, so we can do
without this patch. Thanks,
Alex
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Alex Williamson HP Open Source & Linux Org.
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