Re: Intel ACPI

Ducrot Bruno
2003-02-04T15:55:48Z

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 04:46:42PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 04:43:59PM +0100, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
>
> > > > Nothing, apart that it will not work reliability with Linux or
> > > > any flavour of free *BSD.
> > > I wonder if it's worth allowing the user to override \_OS at boottime.
> > In fact, I *always* change my \_OS string.
>
> Interesting. For any noticable gain ?

S1 and S4bios work better, especially in 2.4 series, if \_OS is set as
'Microsoft Windows NT", because this OS have the same kind of support
for suspending/resuming devices as Linux 2.4 in general...

2.5 is another story. I am not sure for now what is 'best'.