Re: _OSI boot hang

[Nate Lawson <nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Len Brown wrote:
> _OSI is in the ACPI patch on kernel.org and bkbits right now.
>
> However, I find that on my Toshiba Satellite Pro, it causes boot to hang
> at Executing all Device _STA and_INI methods.
>
> >From ACPICA, it comes this way:
> drivers/acpi/utilities/utglobal.c
> const char
> *acpi_gbl_valid_osi_strings[ACPI_NUM_OSI_STRINGS] = {
>                        "Linux",
>                        "Windows 2000",
>                        "Windows 2001",
>                        "Windows 2001.1"};

That's not the right string for Win2k.  It's:
  "Microsoft Windows NT"

Since this is the most popular string, not emulating it is probably
causing some people problems.

-Nate


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