From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: ACPI OSI disaster on latest HP laptops - critical temperature shutdown Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:42:27 -0700 Message-ID: <488B1BB3.7010602@linux.intel.com> References: <200807241727.41715.trenn@suse.de> <200807251319.12786.trenn@suse.de> <200807251726.14366.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga10.intel.com ([192.55.52.92]:1602 "EHLO fmsmga102.fm.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751818AbYGZMmZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:42:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200807251726.14366.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Thomas Renninger , Len Brown , Arjan van de Ven , linux-acpi , "Moore, Robert" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Christian Kornacker > If vendors use _OSI(Windows) to work around Windows bugs, we get broken > automatically on those systems unless we put in some DMI-based hacks. The general goal of ACPICA is to be bug-to-bug compatible with Windows. So it might be needed for ACPICA to just emulate the respective bugs. That said for this case I don't think that's needed, Linux just has to detect the workarounds (which it already does I think) -Andi