From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: corsac@debian.org, ak@linux.intel.com, rui.zhang@intel.com,
nokos@gmx.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, hmh@debian.org
Subject: Re: Do not return true to all kind of Windows OSI calls
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 17:59:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080802165952.GA30580@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217696279-23848-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de>
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 06:57:57PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> ThinkPads store OSI calls in separate variables and later
> check for NT/XP/VISTA specific code to process.
>
> I lately saw a line on a ThinkPad checking for XP and VISTA
> at video device specific code.
>
> So currently some ThinkPads run into code paths which should
> either run on XP or VISTA, but Linux might execute them both
> or in a way that is not intended by BIOS developers.
Could you please show the code in question? I think you're misdiagnosing
the issue.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-02 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 15:37 Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPI drivers - version 4 Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 01/10] ACPI: video: Ignore devices that aren't present in hardware Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 02/10] Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPI drivers Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04 1:56 ` Zhang Rui
2008-11-14 22:27 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-11-16 22:07 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-11-17 19:51 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-11-18 2:31 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 03/10] Acer-WMI: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 21:52 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 04/10] asus-acpi: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 05/10] compal: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 06/10] eeepc-laptop: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:38 ` [PATCH 07/10] fujitsu-laptop: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:38 ` [PATCH 08/10] msi-laptop: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:38 ` [PATCH 09/10] sony-laptop: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 15:38 ` [PATCH 10/10] thinkpad_acpi: " Thomas Renninger
2008-08-01 17:50 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-11-08 5:45 ` Len Brown
2008-08-01 20:49 ` Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPI drivers - version 4 Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <1217632817.4610.6.camel@hidalgo>
2008-08-02 16:57 ` Do not return true to all kind of Windows OSI calls Thomas Renninger
2008-08-02 16:59 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-08-02 16:48 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-02 17:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-02 17:30 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-02 19:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-03 4:43 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-03 6:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-03 13:31 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-03 14:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-03 16:24 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-06 17:12 ` Moore, Robert
2008-08-02 16:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: Provide a OSI interface that does not return true for Windows Thomas Renninger
2008-08-02 16:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] patch acpi_lenovo_thinkpad_only_return_vista.patch Thomas Renninger
2008-08-02 16:28 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04 1:16 ` Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPIdrivers - version 4 Zhang Rui
2008-08-04 6:09 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-04 6:20 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-04 10:20 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04 10:39 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-04 11:19 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04 13:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-04 13:30 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-04 13:40 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-04 13:47 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-05 0:01 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-05 5:55 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-05 9:13 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-05 12:00 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-05 13:37 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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