From: Dave Jones <davej-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
To: "Zdenìk OGAR Skalák" <skalak-Bh/+Xfn7orxQjibfaplwYw@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Intel ACPI
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:30:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030205133049.A18324@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E40AF32.AA177847-Bh/+Xfn7orxQjibfaplwYw@public.gmane.org>; from skalak-Bh/+Xfn7orxQjibfaplwYw@public.gmane.org on Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:29:06AM +0100
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:29:06AM +0100, Zdenìk OGAR Skalák wrote:
> So could we add kernel boot argument to allow changig/overriding the \_OS
> string? Eg. acpi_os="Microsoft Windows NT" to allow us to play with it without
> rekompiling the kernel ?
A bootarg does seem to be the most sensible way to do it. You need
to set it early enough so that you catch everything. Doing it later
through a sysctl or the like would be too late, and doing it statically
at compile time would make it useless for vendor kernels.
Dave
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-03 23:14 Intel ACPI Margit Schubert-While
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2003-02-04 9:45 ` Ducrot Bruno
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2003-02-04 12:22 ` Dave Jones
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2003-02-04 15:43 ` Ducrot Bruno
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2003-02-04 15:46 ` Dave Jones
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2003-02-04 15:55 ` Ducrot Bruno
2003-02-05 6:29 ` Zdeněk OGAR Skalák
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2003-02-05 12:30 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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2003-02-05 18:43 ` [PATCH] [1/2] Allow override acpi_gbl_pre_defined_names (aka change that _OS) Ducrot Bruno
[not found] ` <20030205184310.GK1205-j6u/t2rXLliUoIHC/UFpr9i2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2003-02-05 18:47 ` [PATCH] [2/2] " Ducrot Bruno
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