From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: Intel ACPI Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:30:49 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20030205133049.A18324@suse.de> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030204000748.00b62270@mail.dns-host.com> <20030204094540.GE1205@poup.poupinou.org> <20030204132251.E16744@suse.de> <20030204154359.GH1205@poup.poupinou.org> <20030204164641.A31886@suse.de> <20030204155548.GI1205@poup.poupinou.org> <3E40AF32.AA177847@monetplus.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline 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 Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Zden=ECk_OGAR_Skal=E1k?= Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:29:06AM +0100, Zdeněk 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 -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com