From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Derek Broughton Subject: Re: RE: [PATCH] [2/2] Allow override acpi_gbl_pre_defined_names (aka change that _OS). Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 16:40:30 -0400 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <016901c2cd56$d2ee4f70$3746028e@bio.dfo.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-pyega4qmqnRoyOMFzWx49A@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org From: "Grover, Andrew" > > From: Ducrot Bruno [mailto:ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org] > > This is the linux part. It permit to pass a apci_os_name= boot args > > in order to override the \_OS. > > I'm still not clear on why this needs to be changeable at runtime. If we do > decide that the BIOS writers are so Windows-centric that we need to > masquerade as one, why wouldn't we just change the #define and recompile? Because many of us have Windows-only BIOSes, and really prefer NOT to recompile. If not for ACPI, I would be using pre-packaged kernels. I like Ducrot's idea :-) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com