From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Subject: Re: Do not return true to all kind of Windows OSI calls Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 01:43:53 -0300 Message-ID: <20080803044353.GE6053@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <1217632817.4610.6.camel@hidalgo> <200808021848.16457.trenn@suse.de> <20080802173146.GA31166@srcf.ucam.org> <200808021930.05643.trenn@suse.de> <20080802194843.GA1168@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:51433 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751241AbYHCEoC (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 00:44:02 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080802194843.GA1168@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Thomas Renninger , corsac@debian.org, ak@linux.intel.com, rui.zhang@intel.com, nokos@gmx.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 02 Aug 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/_OSI-method.mspx : > > "Any follow-on operating system from Microsoft that can support the > Windows XP feature set will also return TRUE for Windows 2001. For > example, if Microsoft released a follow-on operating system in 2003, it > will probably be assigned a string of Windows 2003. This operating > system would then return TRUE for the strings Windows 2001 and Windows > 2003, and it would return FALSE for all other strings." > > So, no, it is not a test for Linux. Windows reports all versions, not > just the current one. I'd be careful with that "all versions". The text only says XP onwards. We claim OSI strings older than XP along with XP's and newer ones. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh