Re: Do not return true to all kind of Windows OSI calls

Matthew Garrett
2008-08-02T16:59:57Z

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 06:57:57PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> ThinkPads store OSI calls in separate variables and later
> check for NT/XP/VISTA specific code to process.
>
> I lately saw a line on a ThinkPad checking for XP and VISTA
> at video device specific code.
>
> So currently some ThinkPads run into code paths which should
> either run on XP or VISTA, but Linux might execute them both
> or in a way that is not intended by BIOS developers.

Could you please show the code in question? I think you're misdiagnosing
the issue.

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