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From: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI / blacklist: blacklist Win8 OSI for Dell Inspiron
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Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 14:17:06 -0500
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On 05/14/2015 02:13 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 02:02:02PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>
>> * Battery information was not displayed in the OS.  The BIOS team
>> found that the Linux wasn't asking for battery information in the OS
>> in the same way that Windows does.  The delta path creates a SMI
>> event to get battery information.
> Huh. Is there any chance we can find out what the difference is so we
> can make them equivalent?
>

That was my reaction too.  I'm asking for some technical details on this.