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From: "Zdeněk OGAR Skalák" <skalak-Bh/+Xfn7orxQjibfaplwYw@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Intel ACPI
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:29:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E40AF32.AA177847@monetplus.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030204155548.GI1205@poup.poupinou.org

Hi,

Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 04:46:42PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 04:43:59PM +0100, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> >
> >  > > > Nothing, apart that it will not work reliability with Linux or
> >  > > > any flavour of free *BSD.
> >  > > I wonder if it's worth allowing the user to override \_OS at boottime.
> >  > In fact, I *always* change my \_OS string.
> >
> > Interesting. For any noticable gain ?
> 
> S1 and S4bios work better, especially in 2.4 series, if \_OS is set as
> 'Microsoft Windows NT", because this OS have the same kind of support
> for suspending/resuming devices as Linux 2.4 in general...
> 
> 2.5 is another story.  I am not sure for now what is 'best'.

	So could we add kernel boot argument to allow changig/overriding the \_OS
string? Eg. acpi_os="Microsoft Windows NT" to allow us to play with it without
rekompiling the kernel ?

	Zdenek OGAR Skalak

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-05  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-03 23:14 Intel ACPI Margit Schubert-While
     [not found] ` <4.3.2.7.2.20030204000748.00b62270-/+uTVYYQEIikFefZ9hXnBAC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-04  9:45   ` Ducrot Bruno
     [not found]     ` <20030204094540.GE1205-j6u/t2rXLliUoIHC/UFpr9i2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-04 12:22       ` Dave Jones
     [not found]         ` <20030204132251.E16744-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-04 15:43           ` Ducrot Bruno
     [not found]             ` <20030204154359.GH1205-j6u/t2rXLliUoIHC/UFpr9i2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-04 15:46               ` Dave Jones
     [not found]                 ` <20030204164641.A31886-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-04 15:55                   ` Ducrot Bruno
2003-02-05  6:29                     ` Zdeněk OGAR Skalák [this message]
     [not found]                       ` <3E40AF32.AA177847-Bh/+Xfn7orxQjibfaplwYw@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-05 12:30                         ` Dave Jones
     [not found]                           ` <20030205133049.A18324-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-05 18:43                             ` [PATCH] [1/2] Allow override acpi_gbl_pre_defined_names (aka change that _OS) Ducrot Bruno
     [not found]                               ` <20030205184310.GK1205-j6u/t2rXLliUoIHC/UFpr9i2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-05 18:47                                 ` [PATCH] [2/2] " Ducrot Bruno

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