Re: dmidecode for Compal HEL80 Notebook

[Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>]

On Saturday 19 January 2008 10:20, Jochen Kemnade wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Len Brown schrieb:
> > Do you notice any functional difference when booting with
> > 
> > "acpi_osi=Linux"        (default for 2.6.22 and earlier)
> > vs.
> > "acpi_osi=!Linux"       (default for 2.6.23 and later)
> 
> No, i didn't. I was running 2.6.22 for some time and at the moment, I'm
> running 2.6.24-rc8, but I couldn't make out any functional change. Do
> you have anything specific in mind that I could test and report about?
> 
> > Also, please send me the output from acpidump.

Thanks for the acpidump.
Please verify that the battery and AC/CD switch evenst are working
properly in both cases above.

-Len


...
    Name (ECDY, 0x05)
...
       Method (_INI, 0, NotSerialized)
        {
            Store (0x9999, MARK)
            If (DTSE)
            {
                TRAP (0x47)
                ^PCI0.LPCB.PHSS (0x10)
            }

            Store (0x07D0, OSYS)
            If (CondRefOf (_OSI, Local0))
            {
                If (_OSI ("Linux"))
                {
                    Store (0x03E8, OSYS)
                    Store (Zero, ECDY)
// ECDY is used all over the battery and AC code.

                }

                If (_OSI ("Windows 2001"))
                {
// here OSYS gets over-written, so writing it for Linux above was a NOP
                    Store (0x07D1, OSYS)
                }

                If (_OSI ("Windows 2001 SP1"))
                {
                    Store (0x07D1, OSYS)
                }

                If (_OSI ("Windows 2001 SP2"))
                {
                    Store (0x07D2, OSYS)
                }

                If (_OSI ("Windows 2006"))
                {
                    Store (0x07D6, OSYS)
                }

                If (LLessEqual (OSYS, 0x07D2))
                {
                    TRAP (0x49)
                }

                If (LAnd (MPEN, LEqual (OSYS, 0x07D1)))
                {
                    TRAP (0x3D)
                }
            }
        }