From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable _OSI(Linux) for Xen HVM domains
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:15:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1200608137.7657.85.camel@bling> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801161944.48250.lenb@kernel.org>
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 19:44 -0500, Len Brown wrote:
>
> I think it is fine for the "BIOS" to use the OSI mechanism to ask about the OS.
> However, the string "Linux" is probably not a good choice for the string.
>
> The reason we deleted OSI(Linux) by default is because it is ill-defined.
> A good OSI string would be much more specific, ie. label something
> that is well defined, or at least include version information.
>
> eg. "ACPI 3.0 Thermal Model" means that an OS implements the
> ACPI 3.0 extensions to the thermal model (which we don't, BTW).
Hi Len,
Thanks for the extra explanation. For now, we've decided to go a
different route and create a domain configuration option, so we can do
without this patch. Thanks,
Alex
--
Alex Williamson HP Open Source & Linux Org.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-17 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-06 19:05 [PATCH] Enable _OSI(Linux) for Xen HVM domains Alex Williamson
2008-01-17 0:44 ` Len Brown
2008-01-17 22:15 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
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